This paper investigates geometric and ontological aspects of shape concepts underlying the semantics of nouns. Considering the German shape nouns Ecke and Knick (corner and kink) w...
Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel, Lars Kulik, ...
To support the reuse and combination of ontologies in Semantic Web applications, it is often necessary to obtain smaller ontologies from existing larger ontologies. In particular, ...
Zhe Wang, Kewen Wang, Rodney W. Topor, Jeff Z. Pan
Area based triggers denote notifications being generated if a mobile client changes its spatial relation to a defined area, e.g. if it enters or leaves it. By these triggers, new ...
Component-based development has become a recognized technique for building large scale distributed applications. Although the maturity of this technique, there appears to be quite...
Currently, flexible service compositions are invoked in a centralised manner by process execution engines. Although this approach is widely used for orchestrating web services, it...