A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...
A relational database is inconsistent if it does not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints. Nevertheless, it is likely that most of the data in it is consistent with the co...
Marcelo Arenas, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Jan Chomicki
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...
This paper considers a semantic approach for merging logic programs under answer set semantics. Given logic programs P1, . . . , Pn, the goal is to provide characterisations of the...
James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits, ...
An organizational modeling language can be used to specify an agent organization in terms of its roles, organizational structure, norms, etc. Such an organizational specification ...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholij...