We describe a (meta) formalism for defining a variety of (object oriented) data models in a unified framework based on a variation of first-order logic. As specific example we use...
The use of computational models is increasingly expected to play an important role in predicting the behaviour of biological systems. Models are being sought at different scales o...
The purpose of the chapter is to help someone familiar with DLs to understand the issues involved in developing an ontology for some universe of discourse, which is to become a co...
Z39.50 is a client/server protocol widely used in digital libraries and museums for searching and retrieving information spread over a number of heterogeneous sources. To overcome ...
Abstract. Description logics are powerful knowledge representation systems providing well-founded and computationally tractable classification reasoning. However recognition of in...