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queries presented in this paper by accessing the pub-
lic EKOSS server at http://www.ekoss.org.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to Y Nakamura who created most of
the semantic statements used in this paper and to B
Kemper who implemented the original version of
EKOSS. We also thank Y Hatamura, H Kobayashi,
M Kunishima, M Nakao, and M Tamura for advice
concerning the analysis of the cases in the failure DB.
Funding for this research was provided by the
Knowledge Failure Database project at the Japan
Science and Technology Agency and the Office of
the President of the University of Tokyo.
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