In this paper we investigate the relationship between two prioritized knowledge bases by measuring both the conflict and the agreement between them. First of all, a quantity of co...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a logical representation for form documents to be used for identification and retrieval. A hierarchical structure is proposed to represent the s...
Memory models define an interface between programs written in some language and their implementation, determining which behaviour the memory (and thus a program) is allowed to hav...
A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...
A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...