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CORR
2007
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
Query Evaluation and Optimization in the Semantic Web
We address the problem of answering Web ontology queries efficiently. An ontology is formalized as a Deductive Ontology Base (DOB), a deductive database that comprises the ontology...
Edna Ruckhaus, Eduardo Ruiz, Maria-Esther Vidal
TGC
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Transactional Service Level Agreement
Several models based on process calculi have addressed the definition of linguistic primitives for handling long running transactions and Service Level Agreement (SLA) in service ...
Maria Grazia Buscemi, Hernán C. Melgratti
AOSE
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Posit spaces: a performative model of e-commerce
What distinguishes e-commerce from ordinary commerce? What distinguishes it from distributed computation? In this paper we propose a performative theory of e-commerce, drawing on ...
Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Computing Minimal Mappings
Given two classifications, or lightweight ontologies, we compute the minimal mapping, namely the subset of all possible correspondences, called mapping elements, between them such ...
Fausto Giunchiglia, Vincenzo Maltese, Aliaksandr A...