The open, decentralized nature of the Semantic Web demands fundamental changes in our approach to ontology development and deployment. To maximize the expressiveness and robustnes...
Xiaoshu Wang, Jonas S. Almeida, Arlindo L. Oliveir...
In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been successfully used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual mod...
The UML is the de facto standard for system specification, but offers little specialized support for the specification and analysis of policies. This paper presents Deontic STAIRS,...
The application of model-driven development facilitates faster and more flexible integration by separating system descriptions to different levels of abstraction. In crossorganisat...
In Natural Language Processing (NLP), the quality of a system depends to a great extent on the quality of the linguistic resources it uses. Due to the unpredictable character of v...