In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital "O"), and as a domain-independe...
Abstract—Natural language understanding involves the simultaneous consideration of a large number of different sources of information. Traditional methods employed in language an...
Object-oriented languages define the identity of an object to be an address-based object identifier. The programmer may customize the notion of object identity by overriding the ...
Mandana Vaziri, Frank Tip, Stephen Fink, Julian Do...
Timed Interval Calculus (TIC) is a highly expressive set-based notation for specifying and reasoning about embedded real-time systems. However, it lacks mechanical proving support...
Modeling and analysis is indispensable in engineering. To be safe and effective, a modeling method requires a language with a validated semantics; feature-rich, easy-to-use, depen...