We formulate an algebra of binary temporal relations between events the number of occurrences of which is unknown, but which are known to recur in time. Ontologically, we view the...
Abstract. Digital numbers D are the world’s most popular data representation: nearly all texts, sounds and images are coded somewhere in time and space by binary sequences. The m...
Abstract. We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, e...
This paper introduces new interactive ways to create, manipulate and analyze shapes, even when those shapes do not have simple algebraic generators. This is made possible by using...
The Semantic Web initiative defines important challenges for knowledge representation and database systems. Recently, several standards for representation languages have been pro...