—Learning ontology from text is a challenge in knowledge engineering research and practice. Learning relations between concepts is even more difficult work. However, when conside...
Abstract—Recently, two complementary approaches are proposed to represent, model and analyze laws: the Nomos and VLPM approaches. Nomos is a goal-oriented approach to effectively...
Several lossless data compression schemes have been proposed over the past years. Since Shannon developed information theory in his seminal paper, however, the problem of data com...
The verification of safety critical systems has become an area of increasing importance in computer science. The notion of reactive system has emerged to concentrate on problems r...
The complexity of physical and engineering systems, both in terms of the governing physical phenomena and the number of subprocesses involved, is mirrored in ever more complex mat...