Abstract. Conceptual models are formal descriptions of application domains that are used in early stages of system development to support requirements analysis. The Unified Modeli...
This paper is about decision making based on real-world descriptions of a domain. There are many domains where differentpeoplehavedescribedvariouspartsoftheworldatdifferent f abst...
I develop a strategy for representing epistemic states and epistemic changes that seeks to be sensitive to the difference between voluntary and involuntary aspects of our epistemi...
Homeland security measures are increasing the amount of data collected, processed and mined. At the same time, owners of the data raised legitimate concern about their privacy and...
Metadata management is an essential factor in data warehousing. In data warehousing environments, data is transformed and integrated into a single database from multiple autonomou...