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A novel approach to the modeling of uncertainty in temporal information is developed by the use of Dempster–Shafer (D–S) theory. Temporal uncertain events are first represented by the use of nested intervals, using an inner more certain interval and the outer less certain interval with associated D–S mass values for each interval. The concept of the elapsed time between temporal events is defined,...
Knowledge outcome improvement is critical to the success of e-communities. We build on attitude-based theory and trust literature to propose a model that explains the relationship between belief, knowledge exchange, and knowledge outcomes. This model is based on the trust-centered lens, and theorizes knowledge exchange as affected by one's constructed support, in terms of individual virtual skill...
A recently proposed non-Bayesian social learning rule by [1] finds an update rule that achieves the least Kullback-Leibler (LKL) divergence between a proxy of the true distribution generating agent's local observations and the agent's beliefs. In this paper, we investigate improvements to the LKL social learning algorithm by reusing the M most recent observations of each agent to perform updates of...
More methods and agent-oriented programming languages have been introduced based on the Java language is based, we show that C++ is an agent-oriented programming carried by the object-oriented approach, to do so, the agents are designed based on the Java programming language and language C++, in our opinion, agent structure is similar to an object and we believe that behaviors such as perception,...
Workplace incivility happens enormously inside organizations and has great effects, but it is tend to be ignored. We present a theory of why some people who witness or learn about acts of workplace incivility against others in organizations are more likely to recognize this incivility and become personally involved. Drawing from theories of moral identity and moral justice, We explores the potential...
The design of path allegiance metric (PAM) based routing protocol leverages upon a trust management framework proposed in our earlier works. The PAM routing protocol strives to provide data plane security in mobile ad hoc network and its working is based upon the belief, disbelief and uncertainty components of the trust management framework which assigns a trust metric based upon the packet forwarding...
This paper describes a reasoning approach to decision making with uncertain heterogeneous (soft and hard) information of variable reliability based on belief-based argumentation. Arguments are built to support or refute a set of hypotheses about the situation of interest. Beliefs in the arguments are fused and used for decision making. The fusion process is complicated by different models used for...
As a proactive security approach, service migration can be used as a mechanism for moving target defense. By strategically moving services to different platforms, the system changes the service locations and the underlying platform configurations so that potential attackers cannot identify and target those services. This form of moving target increases the barriers for the attackers and make the system...
The paper presents the concept of using aerial and satellite imagery or images coming from the marine radar to identify and track vessels at sea. The acquired data were subjected to a highly advanced image analysis. The development of remote sensing techniques allows to gain a huge amount of data. These data are useful information source however usually we have to use different data mining methods...
According to the Japan Coast Guard, marine accidents involving over 2,000 vessels have occurred annually, and approximately 30% of these are collision accidents. Presumably, approximately 92% of collision accidents' causes are human factors. We classified the causal factor termed 'gprimary cause by human error' into ten items. As a result of analyzing the dangerous case that we experienced and investigating...
The paper presents computable cognitive model of generic social agent suitable for development of applications for personalized search, information filtering and intelligent content delivery.
In this paper we introduce a novel framework for the distributed control of DTNs in order to support message replication the devices acting as relays need to sacrifice part of their batteries. Due to the fact that feedback messages in DTNs cannot be used, the knowledge of the delivery status is unknown for the source. We model the problem as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) and...
Belief revision is a basic approach to deal with the contradiction in non-monotonic reasoning. It achieves the consistency of the belief base by removing members from it, which causes information loss unavoidably. Compared with belief revision, non-revision reasoning develops new reasoning methods to deal with the contradiction instead of modifying the initial base. This paper is an extending work...
Non-revision reasoning is a process to derive consistent belief set from an inconsistent belief base. Compared with belief revision, it doesn't modify the initial belief base, but developing new reasoning methods to deal with the contradiction. In this paper, an approach of non-revision reasoning in predicate logic is provided. We assume that belief is represented by clause and assign degrees of preference...
MANET is a multi-hop network comprised of nodes that need to work in collaboration with each other for effective routing. But unfortunately, there is possibility of some nodes misbehaving for their own interests and disturbing the network. Therefore, reliability among nodes is very important in the network. Uncertainty is of prior importance, which deeply impacts a node's anticipation of others behavior...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are systems of cooperating autonomous components which closely interact with and control the physical environment. Being distributed and typically based on periodic activities, CPS have to cope with the problem that data capturing a distributed state of the system and its environment are inherently inaccurate (they represent belief on the state). In particular, this poses...
In order to solve the problem which is easy to be overlooked in designing the security protocol, this paper discusses the concepts such as the key freshness, the key sharing and the public key ownership. This paper defines the parameters describing these beliefs, and then proposes security protocol formalization based on belief. Use the method to design security protocols, which can improve the ability...
In this paper, a new online updating framework for constructing monotonicity-preserving Fuzzy Inference Systems (FISs) is proposed. The framework encompasses an optimization-based Similarity Reasoning (SR) scheme and a new monotone fuzzy rule relabeling technique. A complete and monotonically-ordered fuzzy rule base is necessary to maintain the monotonicity property of an FIS model. The proposed framework...
A key frontier in artificial intelligence systems is the ability to represent and reason about culture, a notoriously difficult notion to define and operationalize. This paper presents a framework for representing, simulating, and reasoning on nuanced cultural worldviews, including culturally-mediated perception and judgment simulation, grounded in the INTELNET nuanced Energy-Based Knowledge Representation...
An increasingly important AI frontier is the ability to represent worldviews, culture, values, and other nuanced structures, and to simulate the effects of these on perception, emotion/affect, judgment, and opinion formation. Such information, however, is notably difficult to model and represent, due to its fine-grained, diffuse nature. Reasoning is also highly challenging in these domains. This paper...
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