This paper defines an electronic workflow environment as being conducive to the performance of business processes according to certain policies and practices in an electronic fashion. The workflow procedure will be facilitated ...

Logics of belief and knowledge are typically formulated in terms of modal languages. A possible world semantics is traditionally used for such languages but when a formula A is read as "The agent believes that A", the ...

This paper elucidates the development of a computer tool which combines the use of terrain data in a Geographic Information System (GIS), an equipment database and rule-based inference. It explores the use of GJS to aid ...

Today software developers are required to work closely with users when defining, developing and implementing systems. Interaction between software developers and users can influence the success or failure of the system ...

The focus of many Artificial Intelligence approaches to solving the computer-based scheduling problem is on reducing the size of the search spaces that characterise such problems. The approach presented in this paper ...

The South African banking industry is set to undergo a complete transformation in the next ten years. One of the main reasons for this transformation is the development of virtual banking, specifically new delivery channels ...

The process of delivering suitable explanations in expert systems has been a significant area of research since the inception of expert systems. Their ability to provide explanations of the reasoning process behind a ...

In deductive planning, there exists a· particular class of planning problems, called unsolvable planning problems, which although successfully treated theoretically, turns out to be undetectable using ordinary resolution ...

Information Technology (IT) has become part and parcel of the business world today. In fact, with the increasing sophistication of networks and the continued growth in electronic commerce, it will continue becoming an ever ...

Efficient access to spatial data is essential for many engineering, town planning and mining applications. Conventional database systems are not capable of performing such searches effectively over large data sets. Relational ...