This paper is mainly concerned with the extension of database management systems querying capabilities, so that users may address queries involving preferences and get discriminate...
Domain mismatch and schema mismatch are two of the important semantic integration problems for interoperating heterogeneous databases. This paper structures the domain mismatch pr...
Many tasks within semantic web service discovery can be formalized as reasoning problems related to the partial ordering of subactivity occurrences in a complex activity. We show h...
The UML is the de facto standard for system specification, but offers little specialized support for the specification and analysis of policies. This paper presents Deontic STAIRS,...
Abstract. The paper examines the semantics of the terms `environment' and `habitat' and presents a semi-formalised ontological framework in which these concepts are relat...