Abstract. We introduce a compositional characterization of the operational semantics of equational Horn programs. Then we show that this semantics and the standard operational sema...
This paper describes a computational model of similarity developed to support analogical software reuse. Similarity is computed from conceptual descriptions of software artifacts o...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of merging qualitative constraint networks (QCNs) defined on different qualitative formalisms. Our model is restricted to formalisms wher...
With the growing interest in modular ontology languages to address the need for collaborative development, integration, and use of ontologies on the Web, there is an urgent need fo...
Peer-to-peer systems have the desirable property that the amount of resources available in the system increase as demand for services increases due to growth of the system. We exp...