We present FixIt(ALC), a novel procedure for deciding knowledge base (KB) satisfiability in the Fuzzy Description Logic (FDL) ALC. FixIt(ALC) does not search for tree-structured m...
In description logics (DLs), concrete domains are used for defining concepts based on concrete qualities of their instances such as the weight, age, duration, and spatial extensio...
Abstract We address the problem of indexing broadcast audiovisual documents (such as films, news). Starting from a collection of so-called shots, we aim at building automatically h...
Starting from the logical description of gene regulatory networks developed by R. Thomas, we introduce an enhanced modelling approach based on timed automata. We obtain a refined ...
To improve the ability of predicting the impact scope of a given change, we present two approaches applicable to the maintenance of object-oriented software systems. Our first ap...