This paper presents a method for reasoning about spatial objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly focusses on reasoning abou...
A possible worlds semantics for model-based spatial reasoning is presented. In this semantics, worlds are characterized by the alternative states that result from indeterminacy or...
The paper presents an ontology-based approach to service discovery, apt to support flexible and efficient matchmaking between service descriptions. We propose a hybrid approach th...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
Abstract. The limitations of deductive logic-based approaches at deriving operational knowledge from ontologies may be overcome by inductive (instancebased) methods, which are usua...
Abstract. There is currently great interest in integrating knowledge discovery research into mainstream database systems. Such an enterprise is nontrivial because knowledge discove...