Over the years, Logic Programming has proved to be a good and natural tool for expressing, querying and manipulating explicit knowledge in many areas of computer science. However, ...
Element constructor is one of most expensive operations of the XQuery language as it requires deep copy of the nodes which make up the content of the constructed element. In this ...
In this paper, we describe a new methodology to develop mixed-initiative spoken dialog systems, which is based on the extensive use of simulations to accelerate the development pr...
On the Semantic Web, there has been increasing demand for a ruleslike expressivity that goes beyond OWL-DL. Efforts of combining rules languages and description logics usually pro...
An object-oriented software design is often modelled as a collection of UML diagrams. There is an inherent need to preserve the consistency between these diagrams. Moreover, throu...
Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Jocelyn Simmonds, Tom M...