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BPM
2007
Springer
201views Business» more  BPM 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards Formal Analysis of Artifact-Centric Business Process Models
Abstract. Business process (BP) modeling is a building block for design and management of business processes. Two fundamental aspects of BP modeling are: a formal framework that we...
Kamal Bhattacharya, Cagdas Evren Gerede, Richard H...
ER
2008
Springer
102views Database» more  ER 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
On Temporal Cardinality in the Context of the TOWL Language
The TOWL language is a temporal ontology language built on top of OWL-DL that enables descriptions involving time and temporal aspects such as change and state transitions. Extendi...
Viorel Milea, Michael Mrissa, Kees van der Sluijs,...
AI
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Logic-based ontology comparison and module extraction, with an application to DL-Lite
We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
AUSDM
2007
Springer
112views Data Mining» more  AUSDM 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Measuring Data-Driven Ontology Changes using Text Mining
Most current ontology management systems concentrate on detecting usage-driven changes and representing changes formally in order to maintain the consistency. In this paper, we pr...
Majigsuren Enkhsaikhan, Wilson Wong, Wei Liu, Mark...
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A formal approach to design optimized multimedia service overlay
Service overlay networks have recently attracted tremendous interests. In this paper, we propose a new integrated framework for specifying services composed of service components ...
Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Khaled El-Fakih, Akihito Hirom...