To support the reuse and combination of ontologies in Semantic Web applications, it is often necessary to obtain smaller ontologies from existing larger ontologies. In particular, ...
Zhe Wang, Kewen Wang, Rodney W. Topor, Jeff Z. Pan
Access control has been studied for sometime, and there are a number of theories and techniques for handling access control for single or centralised systems; however, unique and ...
Daisy Daiqin He, Michael Compton, Kerry Taylor, Ji...
In the ECAD area, the Test Generation (TG) problem consists in finding an input vector test for some possible diagnosis (a set of faults) of a digital circuit. Such tests may have ...
We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
This paper presents a supervised approach for identifying generic noun phrases in context. Generic statements express rulelike knowledge about kinds or events. Therefore, their id...