Several applications require reasoning over autonomously developed ontologies. Initially conceived to explicit the semantics of a certain domain, these ontologies become a powerfu...
Modeling languages have been evolving at a high pace, encouraging the use of automatic code generators for transforming models to programs. Automatic code generators should enable ...
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...
Cache coherence protocols of current shared-memory multiprocessors are difficult to verify. Our previous work proposed an extension of Lamport's logical clocks for showing th...
Anne Condon, Mark D. Hill, Manoj Plakal, Daniel J....
In today's world there is a need for knowledge infrastructures that can support several autonomous knowledge bases all using different ontologies and constantly adapting thes...