We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
A web service is a programmable web application accessible using standard Internet protocols. A threelayer architecture has been suggested for web services: service providers, ser...
The goal of this paper is to open discussion about industrial creativity as a potential application field for Embodied Conversational Agents. We introduce the domain of creativity ...
Mobile application components can be effectively and uniformly modeled in terms of autonomous agents moving across different context during execution. In this paper, we introduce a...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Marco Mamei, Fran...
The conceptual formalism supported by an ontology is not sufficient for handling vague information that is commonly found in many application domains. We describe how to introduce...