: With the advent of Optical Networks, an important opportunity for the application of Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) framework emerges. At present, most such networks ...
Abilio Carvalho, Fausto de Carvalho, George Pavlou
A component framework for defining content-based network processing is presented. It is unique among other existing approaches because it enables contents to naturally define th...
The availability of positional information is of great importance in many commercial, public safety, and military applications. The coming years will see the emergence of locationa...
The Semantic Web is a “living organism”, which combines autonomously evolving data sources/knowledge repositories. This dynamic character of the Semantic Web requires (declarat...
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...