This work introduces a formal framework for the social acquisition of ontologies which are constructed dynamically from overhearing the possibly conflicting symbolic interaction o...
paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....
The need for integration of ontologies with nonmonotonic rules has been gaining importance in a number of areas, such as the Semantic Web. A number of researchers addressed this p...
Abstract. We present a semantics and answer set programs for relational peer data exchange systems. When a peer answers a query, it exchanges data with other peers in order to supp...
A compositional method for estimating software reliability of many threaded programs is developed. The method uses estimates of the reliability of individual modules and the proba...