In a series of papers over a period of several years Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters have offered a number of cogent criticisms of historical approaches to creating, maintaining, a...
Machine understandable metadata forms the main prerequisite for the intelligent services envisaged in a Web, which going beyond mere data exchange and provides for effective conten...
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Ioannis ...
: In most cases in intelligent manufacturing applications the communication functions depend on the capabilities of the intelligent tool (e.g. expert system). Three different types...
In this paper, we present the H-Change methodology we have specifically conceived for evolving independent ontologies in open networked systems. Furthermore, we describe the change...
Since its application to systems, emergence has been explained in terms of levels of observation. This approach has led to confusion, contradiction, incoherence and at times mysti...