In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...
Through scenarios in the popular press and technical papers in the research literature, the promise of the Semantic Web has raised a number of different expectations. These expect...
Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rules use non...
This paper presents an extended framework supported by a suitable dissemination protocol to enable ubiquitous Knowledge Bases (u-KBs) in pervasive RFID environments. A u-KB is a di...
Michele Ruta, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio...
In the context of the Semantic Web, several approaches to the combination of ontologies, given in terms of theories of classical first-order logic, and rule bases have been propo...
Jos de Bruijn, Thomas Eiter, Axel Polleres, Hans T...