Our approach for automating the negotiation of business
contracts proceeds in three broad steps. First, determine
the structure of the negotiation process by applying general
knowledge about auctions and domain-specific knowledge
about the contract subject along with preferences from po-

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier
involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of
a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers know about
the component…

Many of today's products are so complex that no single company has all the necessary knowledge about either the product or the required processes to completely design and manufacture them in-house. As a result, most companies are dependent on others…

Most Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems traditionally use a sequential architecture that represents the classical linguistic levels (lexical-morphological, syntactical, semantic, etc.), but they claim for huge and monolithic modules, that make the backtracking among such modules difficult. By using a…

This article presents the confluence of two general ideas: Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP, an argumentation based formalism for representing knowledge and reasoning) and Abduction in logic. In first place, we introduce a framework that formally states the problem of doing…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

La planificación del medio físico tiene, entre sus objetivos prioritarios, la aplicación
de una política preventiva, capaz de evitar el deterioro del medio ambiente. La preservación
de espacios de calidad ambiental lleva consigo la creación de figuras de protección
dotadas…

La interculturalidad, como respuesta normativa
al hecho multicultural, reconoce igualmente
derechos y obligaciones sin atender a
diferencias culturales y reivindica, con ello, la
igualdad en el derecho a ser diferentes. En este
contexto, los profesionales de la salud se ven…

Este ensayo sitúa y caracteriza las teorías holistas del Derecho, y trata de dar respuesta a las críticas más comúnmente dirigidas contra ellas. Las teorías holistas se presentan como teorías de la justificación según las cuales la conclusión de un…