The wide scale usage of OWL for the formalization of real-world ontologies is currently influenced by important limitations which concern both its expressivity and the efficiency ...
Abstract. We introduce a framework, based on logic programming, for preferential reasoning with agents on the Semantic Web. Initially, we encode the knowledge of an agent as a logi...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
We study fusion and binding mechanisms in name passing process calculi. To this purpose, we introduce the U-Calculus, a process calculus with no I/O polarities and a unique form of...
Michele Boreale, Maria Grazia Buscemi, Ugo Montana...
We use a fully abstract denotational model to show that nested function calls and recursive definitions can be eliminated from SPCF (a typed functional language with simple non-lo...
Semantic mapping is one of the important components underlying the data sharing systems. As is known, constructing and maintaining such mappings both are necessary yet extremely h...