Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
We propose a set of metrics for measuring the semantic implications of changes during ontology evolution. Our metrics focus on the changes of classes and associated axioms or annot...
Hierarchies (Extended Abstract) Jan Johannsen Chris Pollett Department of Mathematics Department of Computer Science University of California, San Diego Boston University La Jolla,...
Abstract We present an analog and machine-independent algebraic characterization of elementarily computable functions over the real numbers in the sense of recursive analysis: we p...
The general dimension is a combinatorial measure that characterizes the number of queries needed to learn a concept class. We use this notion to show that any p-evaluatable concep...