Despite its origins in software modeling, there has been growing interest in using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for conceptual modeling of application domains. However, the...
Forma analysis provides an approach to formally derive domain specific operators based on domain-independent operator templates by manipulating a set of equivalence relations (i....
Abstract. Design patterns are widely-used software engineering abstractions which define guidelines for modeling common application scenarios. Ontology design patterns are the ext...
In federated and pervasive networks, trust management has become a cornerstone for information security and privacy. Although people have recognized the importance of privacy and ...
Abstract. Contextual ontologies are ontologies that characterize a concept by a set of properties that vary according to context. Contextual ontologies are now crucial for users wh...
Djamal Benslimane, Ahmed Arara, Gilles Falquet, Za...