INTERVAL METHODS IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION

Abstract

With this issue, we start a new section: short abstract of papers and books on interval methods in knowledge representation. The experience of several conferences on interval computations and fuzzy systems, including the 1995 International Workshop on Applications of Interval Computations (February 1995, El Paso, TX, USA), has shown that there are many areas of knowledge representation where interval methods are applied, and many interesting results of these applications, areas and results that are often not widely known to the knowledge representation community. These papers are published in different journals and conference proceedings, and it is difficult to trace them all. In view of this difficulty, we decided to provide the readers of IJUFKS with short abstract of these papers (something like an ongoing annotated bibliography). We strongly believe that the information about the current applications of interval methods is of interest to this community. For the reasons expressed above, we are currently, more probably, not covering all relevant papers. To increase the coverage, we need your help. If you know of any recent papers devoted to the applications of interval methods to knowledge representation, please send reference to Vladik Kreinovich at vladik@cs.utep.edu, or by regular mail to: Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA. If you have writtend your own reviews of such papers, or if you would like to write such reviews, please contact Vladik as well. Authors, please send information and/or copies of your own applications papers (papers in French, Russian, and German are also welcome). Abstracts should ideally in LATEX or TEX, but ASCII is also acceptable This is a new section, and we want the readers' input about how to make it better. Any suggestions and recommendations will be highly welcome.