Abstract—The principles and best practices of object oriented design require that modules in a program should match logical decomposition of the knowledge that the program implem...
The proliferation of smart spaces and emergence of new standards, such as Web Services, have paved the way for a new breed of software systems. Often the complete functional and Qo...
In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
With the increased usage of the Web and its availability of data, various scholarly information is now available on the Web. Extraction, aggregation, and visualization of such inf...
The heterogeneity problem (in terms of different types of access devices, network bandwidth, preferences/characteristics of the user, etc.) has become a major problem for the Inter...