The field of requirements engineering emerges out of tradition of research and engineering practice that stresses rtance of generalizations and abstractions. abstraction is essent...
Vulnerabilities in distributed applications are being uncovered and exploited faster than software engineers can patch the security holes. All too often these weaknesses result fr...
Clustering can be defined as a data assignment problem where the goal is to partition the data into nonhierarchical groups of items. In our previous work, we suggested an informati...
A definition of types in an information system is given from ld abstractions through data constructs, schema and definitions to physical data values. Category theory suggests tha...
Motivated by medical terminology applications, we investigate the decidability of the well known expressive DL, SHIQ, extended with role inclusion axioms (RIAs) of the form R ◦ ...