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AUTHOR
Helen Kaikova
The role of Ukrainian universities in the development of the global information society
This paper presents an observation of the positive experience obtained by Kharkov State Technical University in the area of education specialists for the development of an information society programme. Economic problems postponed the beginning of the information society programme in Ukraine. Nevertheless, Ukraine now has good possibilities to apply the best experience of western universities and speed up the process of transferring existing education to the European level. The paper also presents an analysis of the main trends that are taking place in that education. The paper uses the example of one of the leading Ukrainian technical universities to show the possible ways of positive chan…
Handling Context-Sensitive Temporal Knowledge from Multiple Differently Ranked Sources
In this paper we develop one way to represent and reason with temporal relations in the context of multiple experts. Every relation between temporal intervals consists of four endpoints’ relations. It is supposed that the context we know is the value of every expert competence concerning every endpoint relation. Thus the context for an interval temporal relation is one kind of compound expert’s rank, which has four components appropriate to every interval endpoints’ relation. Context is being updated after every new opinion is being added to the previous opinions about certain temporal relation. The context of a temporal relation collects all support given by different experts to all compon…