Web services are increasingly gaining acceptance as a framework for facilitating application-to-application interactions within and across enterprises. It is commonly accepted tha...
This paper deals with a multiagent self-organization process aiming to give adaptive features to distributed embedded systems involving intelligent agents in open real world. We p...
We present first steps in the construction of formal models of NAND Flash memory, based on a recently emerged open standard for such devices. The model is at a level of abstracti...
In order to obtain a suitable model of the universe of discourse of some information systems, it is important to allow the description of imprecise objects with temporal indetermi...
Ed Porto Bezerra, Ulrich Schiel, Bernardo Lula Jr.
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...