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CAISE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Ontologically Well-Founded Profile for UML Conceptual Models
UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL) ...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Nicola Guarino, ...
AIL
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
On the Ontological Status of Plans and Norms
This article describes an ontological model of norms. The basic assumption is that a substantial part of a legal system is grounded on the concept of agency. Since a legal system a...
Guido Boella, Leonardo Lesmo, Rossana Damiano
KR
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximative Query Techniques for Agents with Heterogeneous Ontologies and Perceptive Capabilities
In this paper, we propose a framework that provides software and robotic agents with the ability to ask approximate questions to each other in the context of heterogeneous ontolog...
Patrick Doherty, Andrzej Szalas, Witold Lukaszewic...
SSS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On the Possibility and the Impossibility of Message-Driven Self-stabilizing Failure Detection
Abstract. This paper considers message-driven self-stabilizing implementations of unreliable failure detectors. We show that it is impossible to give a deterministic implementation...
Martin Hutle, Josef Widder
RIAO
2007
13 years 9 months ago
An Information Retrieval Driven by Ontology: from Query to Document Expansion
The paper proposes an approach to information retrieval based on the use of a structure (ontology) both for document (resp. query) indexing and query evaluating. The conceptual st...
Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Gabriella Pasi, ...