Search for dissertations about: "Common-sense information"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words Common-sense information.
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1. Creating & Enabling the Useful Service Discovery Experience : The Perfect Recommendation Does Not Exist
Abstract : We are rapidly entering a world with an immense amount of services and devices available to humans and machines. This is a promising future, however there are at least two major challenges for using these services and devices: (1) they have to be found and (2) after being found, they have to be selected amongst. READ MORE
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2. Modelling User Tasks and Intentions for Service Discovery in Ubiquitous Computing
Abstract : Ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) increases in proliferation. Multiple and ever growing in numbers, computational devices are now at the users' disposal throughout the physical environment, while simultaneously being effectively invisible. Consequently, a significant challenge is service discovery. READ MORE
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3. The Obvious & The Essential : Interpreting Software Development & Organizational Change
Abstract : Examining how our basic values affect development processes is the overall theme of this thesis. In practice, the question is investigated in relation to software development and organizational change and in research, in relation to science and its relationship to common sense, specifically within the area of Human Computer Interaction. READ MORE
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4. Knowledge based perceptual anchoring : grounding percepts to concepts in cognitive robots
Abstract : A successful articial cognitive agent needs to integrate its perception of the environment with reasoning and actuation. A key aspect of this integration is the perceptual-symbolic correspondence, which intends to give meaning to the concepts the agent refers to { known as Anchoring. However, perceptual representations alone (e.g. READ MORE
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5. Representing and Reasoning about Complex Human Activities - an Activity-Centric Argumentation-Based Approach
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to develop theories and formal methods to endow a computing machinery with capabilities to identify, represent, reason and evaluate complex activities that are directed by an individual’s needs, goals, motives, preferences and environment, information which can be inconsistent and incomplete.Current methods for formalising and reasoning about human activity are typically limited to basic actions, e. READ MORE