Access control is the problem of regulating access to secret information based on certain context information. In traditional applications, context information is known exactly, p...
One of the key problems with virtual organizations in the context of the (Semantic) Grid is we don’t know how to describe the components used in virtual organizations because the...
The Semantic Web initiative defines important challenges for knowledge representation and database systems. Recently, several standards for representation languages have been pro...
This work introduces a formal framework for the social acquisition of ontologies which are constructed dynamically from overhearing the possibly conflicting symbolic interaction o...
We take a fresh look at the logics of informational dependence and independence of Hintikka and Sandu and V¨a¨an¨anen, and their compositional semantics due to Hodges. We show h...