Fuzzy Quotients in Reactive Common Sense Reasoning

Abstract

In contemporary distributed applications questions concerning coordination have become increasingly urgent. There is a trade-off however to be made between the need for a highly reactive behavior and the need for semantically rich high level abstractions. Especially w.r.t. context-aware applications where various systems have to act together and come to coordinated conclusions the need for powerful semantic abstractions is evident. Our research is based on the observation that human teams are very good in coordinating (when compared to technical systems). Consequently we chose an approach of common sense reasoning which is capable to grasp the specifics of human behavior. One specific in this approach is the usage of fuzzy quotients which bears strong similarities to the notion of granules.