Self-healing is meant for automatic repairing, so that a piece of damaged material regains its original properties, and consequently its service life time is extended. Ideally, the material should have the capability to sense the damage and subsequently to react by means of repairing accordingly. However, most of the so-called self-healing materials reported so far are essentially a kind of sti...

Repairing violations of integrity constraints in databases can be seen as an interleaving diagnostic/repair process. In this paper we introduce a new approach on repairing constraint violations by adopting existing techniques from model–based diagnosis. Violations of integrity constraints observed in an inconsistent database state are diagnosed and repair actions are deduced from diagnoses. By ...

Since regular expressions are often used to detect errors in sequences such as strings or date, it is natural to use them for data repair. Motivated by this, we propose a data repair method based on regular expression to make the input sequence data obey the given regular expression with minimal revision cost. The proposed method contains two steps, sequence repair and token value repair. For s...

In natural language interactions listener a speaker and cannot be assured to have beliefs, the same contexts, back rounds or goals. ' leads to difficulties an Lf mistakes when a list%: tries to interpret a speaker's utterance. One principal source of trouble is the description constructed by the speaker to refer to an actual object in the world. imprecise, confused, The description can be ambig...

Self-repair is essential to all living systems, providing the ability to remain functional in spite of gradual damage. In the context of self-assembly of self-repairing synthetic biomolecular systems, recently Winfree developed a method for transforming a set of DNA tiles into its selfhealing counterpart at the cost of increasing the lattice area by a factor of 25. The overall focus of this pap...

Minimum storage regenerating codes have minimum storage of data in each node and therefore are maximal distance separable (MDS for short) codes. Thus, the number of nodes is upper bounded by 2, where b is the bits of data stored in each node. From both theoretical and practical points of view (see the details in Section 1), it is natural to consider regenerating codes that nearly have minimum s...

The development of the semantic web ensures that the facilitation of agent communication is an issue of increasing importance. It is usually assumed that agents are using the same ontology and hence can understand one another, but the dynamic and distributed nature of the semantic web mean that this is not always a valid assumption. In this paper, we describe a system under construction that ca...

In its traditional definition, a repair of an inconsistent databaseis a consistent database that differs from the inconsistent onein a “minimal way.” Often, repairs are not equally legiti-mate, as it is desired to prefer one over another; for example,one fact is regarded more reliable than another, or a morerecent fact should be preferred to an earlier one. Motivatedby t...

Since the advent of microsurgical techniques in the early part of the last century, it has been known that animal cells can survive the experimental creation of very large holes (>1000 μm2) in their surface (reviewed in Chambers and Chambers, 1961; Heilbrunn, 1956). Remarkably, these initial observations of a truly remarkable cell capacity failed, for many subsequent decades, to generate furthe...

Ontology engineering is a hard and error-prone task, in which small changes may lead to errors, or even produce an inconsistent ontology. As ontologies grow in size, the need for automated methods for repairing inconsistencies while preserving as much of the original knowledge as possible increases. Most previous approaches to this task are based on removing a few axioms from the ontology to re...