Large collections of documents containing various types of multimedia, are made available to the WWW. Unfortunately, due to the un-structuredness of Internet environments it is ha...
Corporate information infrastructures are deployed to reduce risks of data fragmentation and misalignment between the computing resources and the business objectives. However, the...
In decision support systems for Intensive Care Units (ICU), the data management subsystem plays an essential role since the data have a heterogeneous origin. The temporal dimension...
In this paper we describe Racer, which can be considered as a core inference engine for the semantic web. The Racer inference server offers two APIs that are already used by at le...
Abstract. Qualitative reasoning uses a limited set of relevant distinctions of the domain to allow a flexible way of representing and reasoning about it. This work presents a conce...