Asma Moubaiddin

• University of Jordan

Medical diagnosis can be defined as the detection of a disease by examining a patient’s signs, symptoms and history. Diagnostic reasoning can be viewed as a process of testing hypotheses guided by symptoms and signs. Solutions to diagnostic problems can be found by generating a limited number of hypotheses early in the diagnostic process and using...

In this paper, we extend a temporal defeasible logic with a modal operator Committed to formalize commitments that agents undertake as a consequence of communicative actions (speech acts) during dialogues. We represent commitments as modal sentences. The defeasible dual of the modal operator Committed is a modal operator called Exempted. The logica...

In this chapter, we make a first step toward developing a defeasible description logic system that can represent a flexible publication ontology which can support intelligent queries. It involves using the description logic system ALC to build the ontology. We extend an ALC knowledge base with defeasible rules to yield a defeasible description logi...

We aim in this paper to integrate a non-monotonic rule system (defeasible logic) with description logic-based ontologies. This can help us in building defeasible medical ontologies using vocabulary defined in description logic. We shall use defeasible reasoning to function on top of description logic. The process involves using the description logi...

We aim in this paper to integrate a nonmonotonic rule system (defeasible logic) with description logic-based ontologies. This can help us in building defeasible medical ontologies using vocabulary defined in description logic. We shall use defeasible reasoning to function on top of description logic. The process involves using the description logic...

In this paper, we present an Arabic dialogue system (also referred to as a conversational agent) intended to interact with hotel customers and generate responses about reserving a hotel room and other services. The system uses text-based natural language dialogue to navigate customers to the desired answers. We describe the two main modules used in...

In this paper, we present an Arabic dialogue system (also referred to as a conversational agent) intended to interact with hotel customers and generate responses about reserving a hotel room and other services. The system uses text-based natural language dialogue to navigate customers to the desired answers. We describe the two main modules used in...

The research focus in our paper is twofold: (a) to examine the extent to which simple Arabic sentence structures comply with the Government and Binding Theory (GB), and (b) to implement a simple Arabic Context Free Grammar (CFG) parser to analyze input sentence structures to improve some Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Applications. Here...

The research focus in our paper is twofold: (a) to examine the extent to which simple Arabic sentence structures comply with the Government and Binding Theory (GB), and (b) to implement a simple Arabic Context Free Grammar (CFG) parser to analyze input sentence structures to improve some Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Applications. Here...

In this paper, we take the view that any formalization of commitments has to come together with a formalization of time, events/actions and change. We enrich a suitable formalism for reasoning about time, event/action and change in order to represent and reason about commitments. We employ a three-valued based temporal first-order non-monotonic log...

In this paper, we emphasize the role of agents in the development of e-learning systems. We make a first step towards a learner's centric approach. We present a Content Preparation and Flexible Delivery System. We show how agents can help in facilitating the design of appropriate educational material and its delivery in a personalized way. The agen...

In this paper, we employ the Government and Binding theory (GB) to present a system that analyzes the syntactic structure of some simple Arabic sentences structures. We consider different word orders in Arabic and show how they are derived. We include an analysis of Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), Verb-Object-Subject (VOS), Verb-Subject-Object (VSO), no...

Interdisciplinary Collaboration is essential for successful interdisciplinary activities such as large research projects and interdisciplinary problem solving. An Interdisciplinary Collaboration Support System should assist in providing experts in different disciplines (discipline-based knowledge workers) with (some of) the knowledge, experiences a...

In this paper, we propose a knowledge management system that employs agents and case-based reasoning to extract tacit knowledge and support organizational learning and decision making at the level of individual workers, group workers and the whole organization. Agents will perform the tasks of inquiry, investigation, sharing and updating of knowle...

Knowledge sharing between various components of a system is a prerequisite for a successful knowledge management system. A knowledge sharing model includes providing knowledge workers with the knowledge, experiences and insights which they need to perform their tasks. We propose a multi-agent system that assists in the process of knowledge sharing...

Knowledge sharing between various components of a system is a prerequisite for a successful knowledge management system. A knowledge sharing model includes providing knowledge workers with the knowledge, experiences and insights which they need to perform their tasks. We propose a multi-agent system that assists in the process of knowledge sharing...

We propose a partial information state-based framework for collaborative dialogue and argument between agents. We employ a three-valued based nonmonotonic logic, NML3, for representing and reasoning about Partial Information States (PIS). NML3 formalizes some aspects of revisable reasoning and it is sound and complete. Within the framework of NML3,...

In this paper, we make a first step towards a formal model of dialogue and argumentation for a multi-agent problem solving. We shall present a multi-agent system for problem solving. We shall the notion of collaborative problem solving and discuss some of the related communication issues. we propose a partial information state based framework for d...

In this paper, we make a first step towards a formal model of dialogue and argumentation for a multi-agent (model-based) diagnostic system. We shall discuss some of the issues in multi-agent cooperative fault diagnosis, the theories of communicating agents and their reasoning capabilities. We propose a Partial Information State (PIS)-based framewor...

We make the assumptions that deep knowledge based reasoning and analytical capability are necessary to effectively deal with various ongoing issues related to complex systems operations that transcend the boundary of a single discipline. Furthermore, Knowledge communication between disciplines is a prerequisite for successful interdisciplinary rese...

We aim, in this paper, to make a a first step towards developing a model of knowledge acquisition/learning via cooperative dialogue. A key idea in the model is the concept of integrating exchanged information, via dialogue, within an agent's theory. The process is nonmonotonic. Dialogue is a structured process and the structure is relative to what...