The emerging consensus on the boundaries and main elements of the Software Engineering (SE) discipline represents an opportunity for the engineering of shared conceptualizations t...
Queueing delays experienced by packets buffered at a node are among the most difficult to predict when considering the performance of a flow in a network. The arrivals of packets a...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
We propose to enhance a schema integration process with a validation phase employing logic-based data models. In our methodology, we validate the source schemas against the data mo...
Natural language understanding systems require a knowledge base provided with conceptual representations reflecting the structure of human beings' cognitive system. Although ...