Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) considers attributes as a non-ordered set. This is appropriate when the data set is not structured. When an attribute taxonomy exists, existing techni...
This short paper qualitatively introduces the definition of the concepts of Deadlock and Livelock for a general class of Hybrid Control Systems (HCS). Such a characterization hing...
In this paper we examine 1) the scope of geo-ontologies used especially for the purposes of information retrieval on the Web, 2) the core geographical concepts and their mutual re...
An innate characteristic of the development of ontologies is that they are often created by independent groups of expertise, which generates the necessity of merging and aligning o...
UML's current definition of the role concept comes with many problems, not the least being that it is difficult to understand and communicate. This paper proposes a revised UM...