Abstract. In this paper a semantic approach for the specification and the management of databases with evolving schemata is introduced. It is shown how a general object-oriented m...
LOTOS is a formal specification language, designed for the precise description of open distributed systems and protocols. Our purpose is to introduce the operators of logics (for e...
We outline DLMedia, an ontology mediated multimedia information retrieval system, which combines logic-based retrieval with multimedia featurebased similarity retrieval. An ontolog...
Abstract. In this paper, we continue the recently started work on integrating action formalisms with description logics (DLs), by investigating planning in the context of DLs. We p...
We develop a formal framework for modular ontologies by analysing four notions of conservative extensions and their applications in refining, re-using, merging, and segmenting ont...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...