. It concludes with a survey of some implemented systems and an assessment of the practical utility of current methods for reinforcement learning.

in different areas of applications. In this survey of CLP, a primary goal is to give a systematic description of the major trends in terms of common fundamental concepts. The three main parts cover the theory, implementation issues, and programming for applications.

Schema matching is a basic problem in many database application domains, such as data integration, E-business, data warehousing, and semantic query processing. In current implementations, schema matching is typically performed manually, which has significant limitations. On the other hand, previous

, assessing predictions, handling noisy data and outliers, improving the quality of predictions by tuning t parameters, interference between old and new data, implementing locally weighted learning e ciently, and applications of locally weighted learning. A companion paper surveys how locally weighted

A new approach to the problem of multimodality medical image registration is proposed, using a basic concept from information theory, mutual information (MI), or relative entropy, as a new matching criterion. The method presented in this paper applies MI to measure the statistical dependence

in an unknown environment and, using relative observations only, incrementally build a perfect map of the world and to compute simultaneously a bounded estimate of vehicle location. This paper also describes a substantial implementation of the SLAM algorithm on a vehicle operating in an outdoor environment

is essential for the designer of database management software. This survey provides a foundation for the design and implementation of query execution facilities in new database management systems. It describes a wide array of practical query evaluation techniques for both relational and post

the report so as to make it more widely accessible, to alleviate some of the confusion about the "official semantics of the language, and to counter a number of incorrect comments made in the literature about the way statecharts have been implemented. For example, the survey [yon der Beek 1994] does

distributed system to follow directly from the reliability of its con-stituents, but this is not always the case. The mechanisms used to structure a distributed system and to implement cooperation between components play a vital role in determining how reliable the system will be. Many contemporary

that can be brought to bear on its implementation. We propose that the research community mount a j...