An argument by Kratzer (2000) based on Schein (1986, 1993) does not conclusively show that events and thematic roles are necessary ingredients of the logical representation of natu...
Languages that combine predicate logic with probabilities are needed to succinctly represent knowledge in many real-world domains. We consider a formalism based on universally qua...
The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
A modelling language can be defined by a metamodel in UML class diagram. This paper defines the semantics of such metamodels through two mappings: a signature mapping from metamod...
We present a component-based description language for heterogeneous systems composed of several data flow processing components and a unique eventbased controller. Descriptions a...