Gatekeeping theories have been a popular heuristic for describing information control for years, but none have attained a full theoretical status in the context of networks. This ...
Based on the conceptual representation of objects in space and time as introduced in Temporal Concept Analysis first steps are done into the direction of a conceptual theory of ...
This paper proposes a code granulation space which can be applied to program construction and processing. Each granule in the space is defined as an improvement to the seed progra...
In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the externally observable behaviour of services. Given a group of collaborating services, their contract...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...