Abstract-- In this article we present a visual development environment for writing DyLOG programs, explaining the motivations to this work and the main design choices. We will also...
Motivated by the possibilities of applying deductive database technology for efficient query answering in description logics, we present a translation operator µ that transforms...
The work on prototypes in ontologies pioneered by Rosch [10] and elaborated by Lakoff [8] and Freund [3] is related to vagueness in the sense that the more remote an instance is fr...
Because of its facilities for the generalization and specialization of concepts and the unambiguous terminology they provide, ontologies are being used for the representation of re...
Measurement, evaluation and analysis are support processes to main engineering processes. In this work we present an integrated strategy whose rationale is supported by a well-defi...