A knowledge-intensive problem is often not solved by an individual knowledge artifact; rather the solution needs to draw upon multiple, and even heterogeneous, knowledge artifacts....
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Abstract. We study the problem of evolution for Knowledge Bases (KBs) expressed in Description Logics (DLs) of the DL-Lite family. DL-Lite is at the basis of OWL 2 QL, one of the t...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...
Bioinformatics data is growing at a phenomenal rate. Besides the exponential growth of individual databases, the number of data depositories is increasing too. Because of the comp...
Background: Conserved protein sequence motifs are short stretches of amino acid sequence patterns that potentially encode the function of proteins. Several sequence pattern search...