Abstract. While there has been a great deal of work on the development of reasoning algorithms for expressive description logics, in most cases only Tbox reasoning is considered. I...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
Ontological metamodeling or multilevel-modeling refers to ng complex domains at multiple levels of abstraction, especially in domains where the borderline between individuals and c...
tail defines the level of abstraction used to implement the model's components. A highly detailed model will faithfully simulate all aspects of machine operation, whether or n...
Abstract. Esther is the interactive shell of Famke, a prototype implementation of a strongly typed operating system written in the functional programming language Clean. As usual, ...