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ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Service-Based Semantic Search in P2P Systems
—Recently, Semantic Web Services have been increasingly adopted to search, access and manipulate information made available from autonomous and heterogeneous systems interacting ...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
VLDB
1991
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
A Metadata Approach to Resolving Semantic Conflicts
In this paper we describe a rule-based approach to semantic specification that can be used to establish semantic agreement between a source and receiver. Query processing techniqu...
Michael Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick
SIGLEX
1991
14 years 3 months ago
Logical Structures in the Lexicon
The lexical entry for a word must contain all the information needed to construct a semantic representation for sentences that contain the word. Because of that requirement, the f...
John F. Sowa
SIGLEX
1991
14 years 3 months ago
Aspectual Requirements of Temporal Connectives: Evidence for a Two-Level Approach to Semantics
This paper argues for a two-level theory of semantics as opposed to a one-level theory, based on the example of the system of temporal and durationM connectives. Instead of identi...
Michael Herweg
DOOD
1995
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Active Database Rules with Transaction-Conscious Stable-Model Semantics
Semantics represents a major problem area for active databases inasmuch as (i) there is l framework for defining the abstract semantics of active rules, and (ii) the various syst...
Carlo Zaniolo
LCTRTS
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Validation of Code-Improving Transformations
This paper presents a general approach to automatically validate code-improving transformations on low-level program representations. The approach ensures the correctness of compi...
Robert van Engelen, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On the Semantics of Functional Descriptions of Web Services
Functional descriptions are a central pillar of Semantic Web services. Disregarding details on how to invoke and consume the service, they shall provide a black box description for...
Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Matching Semantic Service Descriptions with Local Closed-World Reasoning
Abstract. Semantic Web Services were developed with the goal of automating the integration of business processes on the Web. The main idea is to express the functionality of the se...
Stephan Grimm, Boris Motik, Chris Preist
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Hierarchical Relations from Text
Abstract. Automatic extraction of semantic relationships between entity instances in an ontology is useful for attaching richer semantic metadata to documents. In this paper we pro...
Ting Wang, Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cu...