A combination of open and closed-world reasoning (usually called local closed world reasoning) is a desirable capability of knowledge representation formalisms for Semantic Web app...
Over the years, Logic Programming has proved to be a good and natural tool for expressing, querying and manipulating explicit knowledge in many areas of computer science. However, ...
In order to obtain a suitable model of the universe of discourse of some information systems, it is important to allow the description of imprecise objects with temporal indetermi...
Ed Porto Bezerra, Ulrich Schiel, Bernardo Lula Jr.
In this paper a semantic approach for the specification and the management of databases with evolving schemata is introduced. It is shown how a general objectoriented model for sc...
This paper proposes and analyses the performance of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) using two new concepts, namely a static fitness function including a discontinuity measure and a fract...