Integrity checking is an essential means for the preservation of the intended semantics of a deductive database. Incrementality is the only feasible approach to checking and can be...
Due to the large success of wireless networks and portable devices, the pervasive computing paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to be achieved in...
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Nikolaos Georgantas, Valé...
This paper describes an approach for a composition of web services based on their semantic descriptions. The process section of OWL-S service descriptions is built with references...
In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...
This paper develops a mathematical characterisation of object-oriented concepts by defining an observation-oriented semantics for an object-oriented language (OOL) with a rich var...