We present a method to measure the amount of structural distortion carried by an alignment between two taxonomic cores of ontologies represented as semantic hierarchies. We present...
Inferences about speech acts are often conditional, nonmonotonic, and involve the issue of time. Most agent communication languages, however, ignore these issues, due to the difļ¬...
This paper aims to bring the beneļ¬ts of the use of Category Theory to the ļ¬eld of Semantic Web, where the coexistence of intrinsically diļ¬erent models of local knowledge mak...
ics for abstraction Chiara Ghidini1 and Fausto Giunchiglia2 Abstract. The goal of this paper is to propose a model-theoretic formalization of abstraction, where abstraction is mode...
Among the possible approaches for expressing real-time problems with the B method, two are dominant : the use of the usual B mechanisms to deļ¬ne temporal constraints on the one h...