Problems resulting from the management of shared, distributed knowledge has led to ontologies being employed as a solution, in order to effectively integrate information across a...
A design pattern encapsulates the knowledge of object-oriented designers into re-usable artifacts. A design pattern is a descriptive device that fosters software design re-use. Th...
Steve MacDonald, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer...
Design patterns are typically defined informally, albeit in a standard format, and have to be programmed by the software designer into each new application. Thus although patterns ...
Kung-Kiu Lau, Ioannis Ntalamagkas, Cuong M. Tran, ...
The vision of the Semantic Web can only be realized through proliferation of well-known ontologies describing different domains. To enable interoperability in the Semantic Web, it...
Alexander Maedche, Boris Motik, Ljiljana Stojanovi...
Interface theories have been proposed to support incremental design and independent implementability. Incremental design means that the compatibility checking of interfaces can pr...
Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. Henzinger, Barbara Jobstm...