Holonic and agent-based paradigms are very suitable in the development of distributed manufacturing control systems, taking advantage of their modularity, decentralization, and abi...
In this paper, we present a method for modeling joint information when generating n-best lists. We apply the method to a novel task of characterizing the similarity of a group of ...
The construction of composite Web Services from service fragments requires semantic descriptions of service offers and service requests. We propose the use of dependencies as a mo...
Representing and Reasoning about time and change is one of the primary issues in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Representation (KR). Despite the importance...
Because it is difficult to engineer a complex ontology with time, we here consider a method that allows for factorizing the complexity of the engineering process, FONTE (Factoriz...