Although we do not profess to be capable of defining a `roadmap' for the foundations of SE over the next ten years, we can discern some important steps that would be extremel...
The use of approximation as a method for dealing with complex problems is a fundamental research issue in Knowledge Representation. Using approximation in symbolic AI is not strai...
Abstract. We present a novel approach to logic-based bilateral negotiation in ecommerce systems. We use Description Logics to describe both requests/offers submitted by buyers and ...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...
Verification that agent communication protocols have desirable properties or do not have undesirable properties is an important issue in agent systems where agents intend to commu...
Katie Atkinson, Roderic A. Girle, Peter McBurney, ...
Answering queries over ontologies is an important issue for the Semantic Web. Aggregate queries were widely studied for relational databases but almost no results are known for ag...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Ca...