bstract or nonliving entities act or are described as living. And living things gain extra benefits such as animals talking. For this reason, the standard scripts are modified to a...
Time is an important data dimension with distinct characteristics that is common across many application domains. This demands specialized methods in order to support proper analy...
Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, C...
Abstract. Dealing with heterogeneous ontologies by means of semantic mappings has become an important area of research and a number of systems for discovering mappings between onto...
We propose ontological blending as a new method for `creatively' combining ontologies. In contrast to other combination techniques that aim at integrating or assimilating cate...
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, John A....
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...