Many safety-related and certification standards exist for developing safety-critical systems. Safety assessments are performed in practice, and system certification according to a...
Abstract. The increasing flow of digital information requires the extraction, filtering and classification of pertinent information from large volumes of texts. An important pre...
The purpose of the chapter is to help someone familiar with DLs to understand the issues involved in developing an ontology for some universe of discourse, which is to become a co...
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than buildin...
Abstract. The development of index structures that allow ecient retrieval of spatial objects has been a topic of interest in the last decades. Most of these structures have been d...