Because there is still no agreed-upon global ontology, Web services supplied by different providers typically have individual and unique semantics, described by independently devel...
Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutierrez, Benit...
Abstract. In general, disjunction is considered to add expressive power to propositional logic programs under stable model semantics, and to enlarge the range of problems which can...
Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Hans Tompits, Stefan W...
Object-oriented languages come with pre-defined composition mechanisms, such as inheritance, object composition, or delegation, each characterized by a certain set of composition...
Beginning with BETA, a range of programming language mechanisms such as virtual classes (class-valued attributes of objects) have been developed to allow inheritance in the presen...
Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Tob...
Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However, most of the existing methods for constructing o...