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DILS
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Ontology Design Principles and Normalization Techniques in the Web
The open, decentralized nature of the Semantic Web demands fundamental changes in our approach to ontology development and deployment. To maximize the expressiveness and robustnes...
Xiaoshu Wang, Jonas S. Almeida, Arlindo L. Oliveir...
ER
2008
Springer
165views Database» more  ER 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Content Ontology Design Patterns as Practical Building Blocks for Web Ontologies
In this paper we present how to extract and describe emerging content ontology design patterns, and how to compose, specialize and expand them for ontology design, with particular ...
Valentina Presutti, Aldo Gangemi
POPL
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Stochastic lambda calculus and monads of probability distributions
Probability distributions are useful for expressing the meanings of probabilistic languages, which support formal modeling of and reasoning about uncertainty. Probability distribu...
Norman Ramsey, Avi Pfeffer
ACOM
2006
Springer
16 years 23 days ago
Adaptiveness in Agent Communication: Application and Adaptation of Conversation Patterns
Communication in multi-agent systems (MASs) is usually governed by agent communication languages (ACLs) and communication protocols carrying a clear cut semantics. With an increasi...
Felix A. Fischer, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Wei&sz...
IDEAS
2005
IEEE
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16 years 11 days ago
Agents and Databases: Friends or Foes?
On first glance agent technology seems more like a hostile intruder into the database world. On the other hand, the two could easily complement each other, since agents carry out ...
Peter C. Lockemann, René Witte