An input to the conceptual database design phase contains a description of the target database. This description is usually given in some natural language, for instance in English...
We discuss the application of deontic logics to the modelling of variabilities in product family descriptions. Deontic logics make it possible to express concepts like permission a...
Patrizia Asirelli, Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania G...
Abstract. We provide a formal characterization of a notion of contextual taxonomy, that is to say, a taxonomy holding only with respect to a specific context. To this aim, a new pr...
In application areas like personal information agents user modelstypically maintain sophisticated representations of personal interest profiles. Theserepresentations can be utiliz...
Techniques for computation on generalized diagrams are defined and the KM implications are explored. Descriptive Computing is presented and plan computation based on world models t...