There continues to be increasing interest from a broad range of disciplines in agent-based and artificial life simulations. This includes the Department of Defense--which uses sim...
Thomas M. Cioppa, Thomas W. Lucas, Susan M. Sanche...
In the last years, there has been an increasing interest in the performance of reasoning on the Semantic Web in presence of large ABoxes. Traditional reasoners make heavily use of ...
Practical scalability of Description Logic (DL) reasoning is an important premise for the adoption of OWL in a real-world setting. Many highly efficient optimizations for the DL ta...
Defeasible reasoning is a rule-based approach for efficient reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. Such reasoning is useful for many applications in the Semantic W...
Nick Bassiliades, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Grigoris...
In this paper, we introduce Quasi Serializability, a correctness criterion for concurrency control in heterogeneous distributed database environments. A global history is quasi se...