In this paper, we define a simple but scalable framework for peer-to-peer data sharing systems, in which the problem of answering queries over a network of semantically related p...
Conceptual Modeling is a discipline of great relevance to several areas in Computer Science. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL)...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Marten van Sinde...
SIL's (Safety Integrity Levels) are used by IEC 61508:1998 [1] to characterise the required functional safety of computer control systems. For example, SIL 4, the highest rat...
This paper presents two case studies of parallelization of large Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications using a parallel logic programmingsystem (called "ACE")th...
Enrico Pontelli, Gopal Gupta, Janyce Wiebe, David ...
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), currently a popular method for modeling and solving decision theoretic planning problems, are limited by the Markovian assumption: rewards and dy...