We present a resolution-based decision procedure for the description logic SHOIQ--the logic underlying the Semantic Web ontology language OWL-DL. Our procedure is goal-oriented, an...
Abstract. The description of a single state of a modelled system is often complex in practice, but few procedures for synthesis address this problem in depth. We study systems in w...
We give a notation and a logical calculus for the description and deductive manipulation of dynamic networks of communicating components. We represent such nets by hierarchical sys...
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
We present an approach of how to extract automatically an XML document structure from a conceptual data model that describes the content of a document. We use UML class diagrams as...