This paper proposes a new way of structuring the virtual infrastructure in terms of knowledge acquisition for SADU implementation. Through virtualization, the hardware infrastructure becomes a service, virtual machines become predominant within the infrastructure and their way of functioning can...

Due to software which plays an increasingly role in everyday life, interaction between humans and computers will increase in importance; therefore, the ability to support interactions for efficient re-use of experience is a major challenge for systems in the future. Trace Based Reasoning will have...

Fault Diagnosis in real systems usually involves human expert’s shallow knowledge (as pattern causes-effects) but also deep knowledge (as structural / functional modularization and models on behavior). The paper proposes a unified approach on diagnosis by abduction based on plausibility and...

The knowledge acquisition concerning the behavior at the fault of the complex systems is a systematic process, first, by the presentation of the processes, procedures and stages that occur throughout of a acquisition project of knowledge. Also, a good knowledge of the system, with all its...

Economic development of electronic services provide advice and many agents of existing referral systems to recommend and provide products, information and customized views of the community through a personalized interaction in real time. Distributed systems of autonomous agents are becoming...