The need to merge different versions of an object toa common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous ...
In many cases, a logic program can be divided into two parts, so that one of them, the \bottom" part, does not refer to the predicates de ned in the \top" part. The \bot...
[Context and motivation] In Requirements Management, ontologies are used to reconcile gaps in the knowledge and common understanding among stakeholders during requirement elicitati...
In this work, we show the importance of multidimensional opinion representation in the political context combining domain knowledge and results from principal component analysis. ...
In a history-based trust-management system, users and service providers use information about past transactions to make trust-based decisions concerning current transactions. One ...