An executable computational logic can provide the desired bridge between formal system properties and formal methods to verify them on the one hand, and executable models of syste...
Abstract. Among many other knowledge representations formalisms, Ontologies and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) aim at modeling ‘concepts’. We discuss how these two formalisms ma...
Philipp Cimiano, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme, Julie...
This paper studies activity cycle diagrams (ACD) for modeling construction processes using activities as the basic elements. An ACD is obtained by combining the activity cycles of...
Complex software systems possess concurrent and reactive behaviors requiring precise specifications prior to development. Lamport's transition axiom method is a formal specif...
Jagadish Suryadevara, Lawrence Chung, R. K. Shyama...
This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...