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FASE
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Real-Time Execution Semantics for UML Activity Diagrams
We define a formal execution semantics for UML activity diagrams that is appropriate for workflow modelling. Our semantics is aimed at the requirements level by assuming that sof...
Rik Eshuis, Roel Wieringa
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
New Semantics for Quantitative Possibility Theory
New semantics for numerical values given to possibility measures are provided. For epistemic possibilities, the new approach is based on the semantics of the transferable belief m...
Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Philippe Smets
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
EXPRESS: EXPressing REstful Semantic Services Using Domain Ontologies
Existing approaches to Semantic Web Services (SWS) require a domain ontology and a semantic description of the service. In the case of lightweight SWS approaches, such as SAWSDL, s...
Areeb Alowisheq, David E. Millard, Thanassis Tirop...
LPNMR
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On Reductive Semantics of Aggregates in Answer Set Programming
Several proposals of the semantics of aggregates are based on different extensions of the stable model semantics, which makes it difficult to compare them. In this note, building ...
Joohyung Lee, Yunsong Meng
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Preferential Semantics for Plausible Subsumption in Possibility Theory
Handling exceptions in a knowledge-based system has been considered as an important issue in many domains of applications, such as medical domain. In this paper, we propose severa...
Guilin Qi, Zhizheng Zhang
LICS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Polarized Games
We study the comparison of dynamic semantics (games, dealing with interactions) with static semantics (dealing with results of interactions), in the spirit of Timeless Games [2]. ...
Olivier Laurent
ICDM
2002
IEEE
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Using Text Mining to Infer Semantic Attributes for Retail Data Mining
Current Data Mining techniques usually do not have a mechanism to automatically infer semantic features inherent in the data being “mined”. The semantics are either injected i...
Rayid Ghani, Andrew E. Fano
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Well-Founded Optimism: Inheritance in Frame-Based Knowledge Bases
Abstract. F-logic is a popular formalism for knowledge-intensive applications and, especially, for ontology management in Semantic Web. However, the original F-logic’s semantics ...
Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer
ICDT
2003
ACM
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Probabilistic Interval XML
Interest in XML databases has been growing over the last few years. In this paper, we study the problem of incorporating probabilistic information into XML databases. We propose th...
Edward Hung, Lise Getoor, V. S. Subrahmanian
FSTTCS
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Equational Theory for Transactions
Abstract. Transactions are commonly described as being ACID: Allor-nothing, Consistent, Isolated and Durable. However, although these words convey a powerful intuition, the ACID pr...
Andrew P. Black, Vincent Cremet, Rachid Guerraoui,...