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Truth discovery is a fundamental research topic, which aims at identifying the true value(s) of objects of interest given the conflicting multi-sourced data. Although considerable research efforts have been conducted on this topic, we can still point out two significant issues unsolved: i) single-valued assumption, i.e., current methods assume only one true value for each object, while in reali...

To interact effectively, agents must enter into commitments. What should an agent do when these commitments conflict? We describe Coco, an approach for reasoning about which specific commitments apply to specific parties in light of general types of commitments, specific circumstances, and dominance relations among specific commitments. Coco adapts answer-set programming to identify a maximal s...

Conflicting health information is increasing in amount and visibility, as evidenced most recently by the controversy surrounding the risks and benefits of childhood vaccinations. The mechanisms through which conflicting information affects individuals are poorly understood; thus, we are unprepared to help people process conflicting information when making important health decisions. In this vie...

Behavioral studies have shown that humans can adapt to conflicting sensorimotor mappings that cause interference after intensive training. While previous research works indicate the involvement of distinct brain regions for different types of motor learning (e.g., kinematics vs dynamics), the neural mechanisms underlying joint adaptation to conflicting mappings within the same type of perturbat...

In this issue of Neurology, two articles consider the treatment of neglect with prisms and initially appear to have contradictory results. 1,2 Neglect due to right hemisphere injury, most commonly after stroke, continues to be a major cause of disability, impairing ability to live independently and perform activities of daily living. Patients with strokes that damage the right hemisphere are mo...

First motivation of our approach is Decathlon as an athletic discipline and its development in the last century (http://www.decathlon.ee). During this period, motivated by a desire of a fair competition, a development in scoring tables occurred. Today we can say it is stabilized. It shows single disciplines ordered (and scored) in direction of better (harder) achievement. Comparison with single...

Let C be a finite set of n elements and R = {r1, r2, . . . , rm} a family of m subsets of C. A subset X of R verifies the Consecutive Ones Property (C1P) if there exists a permutation P of C such that each ri in X is an interval of P . A Minimal Conflicting Set (MCS) S ⊆ R is a subset of R that does not verify the C1P, but such that any of its proper subsets does. In this paper, we present a ne...

T his commentary explains conflicting trends in violence over the past decade as derived from the two official sources of information: household crime surveys designed to identify citizens’ experience of crime and police data. Police records, rather than representing a reliable measure of trends in violence, are a product of police activity—increasingly prompted by better surveillance and targe...

Applications such as geographic information retrieval need to deal with spatial information of a very diverse nature, typically involving a mixture of qualitative spatial relations and quantitative geographic constraints. Since existing approaches to spatial reasoning cannot easily be adapted to such a setting, we argue for a more direct approach, in which available information is viewed as con...