We argue that meta-dialog and meta-reasoning, far from being of only occasional use, are the very essence of conversation and communication between agents. We give four paradigm examples of massive use of meta-dialog where only limited object dialog may be present, and use these to bolster our claim of centrality for meta-dialog. We further illustrate this with related work in active logics. We...

Region-based tests are becoming a popular tool for analyzing rare genetic variants. In order for these tests to have adequate power, it is often necessary to meta-analyze information from multiple contributing studies, where consent restrictions make it difficult or impossible to share individual level data. We present the R package seqMeta for meta-analyzing region based tests, such as SKAT, S...

We present a state-of-the-art survey of parallel meta-heuristic strategies, developments, and results. We discuss general design and implementation principles that apply to most metaheuristic classes and instantiate these principles for neighborhood and population-based metaheuristics. We also identify a number of trends and promising research directions.

Current information protection systems only detect and warn against individual intrusion, and are not able to provide a collective and synthesized alert message. In this paper, we propose a new Meta-IDS system which is called “SIA System”. The SIA system can filter redundant alert messages, analyze mixed attacks using correlation alert messages from each sensor and respond to security threats q...

In this contribution we investigate the evolution of operators for Genetic Programming by means of Genetic Programming. Metaevolution of recombination operators in graph-based GP is applied and compared to other methods for the variation of recombination operators in graph-based GP. We demonstrate that a straightforward application of recombination operators onto themselves does not work well. ...

In order to extend the use of software process improvement programs and to make it independent of organizational features, this work describes the results obtained using a knowledge based model and tool, and proposes a pattern-based solution, using a SPEM (Software Process Engineering Metamodel) extension, in order to improve the efficiency of use of the knowledge-based model proposed.

Previous approaches to implementing temporal DBMSs have assumed that a temporal DBMS must be built from scratch, employing an integrated architecture and using new temporal implementation techniques such as temporal indexes and join algorithms. However, this is a very large and time-consuming task. This paper explores approaches to implementing a temporal DBMS as a stratum on top of an existing...

AI research on meta-reasoning for agent self-adaptation has generally focused on modifying the agent’s reasoning processes. In this paper, we describe the use of meta-reasoning for retrospective adaptation of the agent’s domain knowledge. In particular, we consider the use of meta-knowledge for structural credit assignment in a classification hierarchy when the classifier makes an incorrect pre...