With the increasing use of ontologies in Semantic Web and enterprise knowledge management, it is critical to develop scalable and efficient ontology management systems. In this pap...
Jian Zhou, Li Ma, Qiaoling Liu, Lei Zhang, Yong Yu...
bstract or nonliving entities act or are described as living. And living things gain extra benefits such as animals talking. For this reason, the standard scripts are modified to a...
The users of libraries of object-oriented software components face with both a terminological and a cognitive gap. Usually, library users do not understand the vocabulary used in t...
In ordered logic programs, i.e. partially ordered sets of clauses where smaller rules carry more preference, inconsistencies, which appear as conflicts between applicable rules, a...
This paper presents a semantic foundation of temporal conceptual models used to design temporal information systems. We consider a modeling language able to express both timestampi...