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IJMMS
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Using OWL to model biological knowledge
Much has been written of the facilities for ontology building and reasoning offered for ontologies expressed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Less has been written about how th...
Robert Stevens, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Katy...
ER
2007
Springer
108views Database» more  ER 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Reasoning over Extended ER Models
Abstract. We investigate the computational complexity of reasoning over various fragments of the Extended Entity-Relationship (EER) language, which includes a number of constructs:...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchak...
VL
2000
IEEE
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14 years 29 days ago
SD2: A Sound and Complete Diagrammatic Reasoning System
SD2 is a system of Venn-type diagrams that can be used to reason diagrammatically about sets, their cardinalities and their relationships. They augment the systems of Venn-Peirce ...
John Howse, Fernando Molina, John Taylor
ISTAR
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Ontological Foundations for Agent-Oriented Organizational Modeling
Abstract. This paper reports on our work on three complementary directions, aimed at developing: (i) a theoretical framework named UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) for (re) desi...
Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Jo&at...
JUCS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
A Safe Dynamic Adaptation Framework for Aspect-Oriented Software Development
: One focus of current software development is the re-use of components in the construction of systems. Software Adaptation facilitates the consequent need to adapt these component...
Miguel Ángel Pérez Toledano, Amparo ...