An ontology is a formal representation of a domain modeling the entities in the domain and their relations. When a domain is represented by multiple ontologies, there is need for ...
Meta-design of socio-technical systems is an approach which complies with the need of integrating two different types of structures and processes: technical systems which are engi...
In the traditional data exchange setting, source instances are restricted to be complete in the sense that every fact is either true or false in these instances. Although natural ...
We study small distributed work groups capturing, managing, and reusing knowledge in a collaborative activity. We conceive this process as adaptation of a group to an activity and...
Gregorio Convertino, Thomas P. Moran, Barton A. Sm...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to manage data in multiple languages simultaneously. While current database systems do support the storag...