In this paper, we defend the idea of integrating the actual cognitive features of novice users in the creation process of the applications to significantly increase the quality of...
TCP-nets are an extension of CP-nets which allow the expression of conditional relative importance of pairs of variables. In this paper it is shown that a simple logic of condition...
Ontologies will play a pivotal rˆole in the “Semantic Web”, where they will provide a source of precisely defined terms that can be communicated across people and applicatio...
Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, Carole A. Goble, Rob...
Abstract. In this paper we focus on the problem of integrating knowledge bases expressed in a description logic. To this end, we propose three basic operations: union, intersection...
Making a database system active entails developing an expressive event specification language with well-defined semantics, algorithms for the detection of composite events, and an...
Sharma Chakravarthy, V. Krishnaprasad, Eman Anwar,...