Simple retrenchment is briefly reviewed in the B language of J.-R. Abrial [1] as a liberalisation of classical refinement, for the formal description of application developments ...
This paper presents the formal syntax and the operational semantics of Taverna, a workflow management system with a large user base among the e-Science community. Such formal foun...
Daniele Turi, Paolo Missier, Carole A. Goble, Davi...
In this work we present the usage of semantic web knowledge representation formalism (OWL) in combination with general purpose reasoning for building a medical expert system. The a...
On the Semantic Web, there has been increasing demand for a ruleslike expressivity that goes beyond OWL-DL. Efforts of combining rules languages and description logics usually pro...
Given the numerous knowledge representation models (KR-schemes) that have been proposed, it would be desirable to have a formal, unifying model for the description of a KR-scheme,...