Ubiquitous computing environment has become more popular as a highly open, heterogeneous and service-rich domain, which makes it essential and important for end-users to build a r...
Reference models play an important role in the knowledge management of the various complex collaboration domains (such as Supply Chain Networks). However, they often show a lack o...
For multimedia interpretation, and in particular for the combined interpretation of information coming from different modalities, a semantically well-founded formalization is requ...
To cope with society’s demand for transparency and corruption prevention, the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) has carried out a number of actions, including: aw...
Rommel N. Carvalho, Kathryn B. Laskey, Paulo Cesar...
We have developed a generic ontology of objects, and a knowledge base of everyday physical objects. Objects are represented as assemblies of functional features and their spatial r...