Abstract. Heterogeneous specification becomes more and more important because complex systems are often specified using multiple viewpoints, involving multiple formalisms. Moreover...
Abstract. The description of public resources such as web site contents, web services or data files in open peer-to-peer networks using some formal framework like RDF usually re...
The standardization of the second generation Web Ontology Language, OWL, leaves a crucial issue for Web-based ontologies unsatisfactorily resolved: how to represent and reason with...
Logic is a celebrated representation language because of its formal generality. But there are two senses in which a logic may be considered general, one that concerns a technical a...
Abstract. This paper deals with knowledge-based computer aided design. A novel method giving additional support for conceptual design is presented. In this method, a designer firs...