Service-oriented computing proposes services as building blocks which can be composed to complex systems. To reason about the correctness of a service, its communication protocol n...
Abstract. The fields of philosophy and informatics entertain two somewhat different conceptions of ontology. Philosophical ontology is a branch of metaphysics dating back at least ...
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
or cone, abstraction is chosen to represent a spectrum of user inputs/requirements that are narrowed, refined, and structured into a system design. User inputs require refinement f...
K. Suzanne Barber, Thomas J. Graser, Paul Grisham,...
Researchers in the ontology-design field have developed the content for ontologies in many domain areas. Recently, ontologies have become increasingly common on the WorldWide Web ...