One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than buildin...
Ontologies, and in particular upper ontologies, are foundational to the establishment of the Semantic Web. Upper ontologies are used as equivalence formalisms between domain speci...
Winston Anderson, Laurette Pretorius, Albert E. Ko...
Abstract. Expectation (average) properties of continuous random variables are widely used to judge performance characteristics in engineering and physical sciences. This paper pres...
Osman Hasan, Naeem Abbasi, Behzad Akbarpour, Sofi&...
We formalize aspects of the Kerberos 5 authentication protocol in the Multi-Set Rewriting formalism (MSR) on two levels of detail. The more detailed formalization reflects the in...
Frederick Butler, Iliano Cervesato, Aaron D. Jagga...
Abstract. In this paper we study dynamic properties of knowledge-based systems. We argue the importance of such dynamic properties for the construction and analysis of knowledge-ba...
Perry Groot, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen