The paper describes and analyzes the way in which a particular case company stimulated the development of communities of practice as a vehicle for encouraging product and process ...
Abstract. We consider the setting of ontological database access, where an Abox is given in form of a relational database D and where a Boolean conjunctive query q has to be evalua...
We study a restriction of the classification procedure for EL++ where the inference rule for complex role inclusion axioms (RIAs) is applied in a “left-linear” way in analogy ...
: A software process is defined as a description of various steps that must be carried out by process agents to pursue the goals of software engineering. To support a software proc...
The WS-BPEL specification focuses on business processes the activities of which are assumed to be interactions with Web services. However, WS-BPEL processes go beyond the orchestr...