As a means of modeling typical system behavior, we present a description technique for business processes derived from data flow nets and provide it with a formal semantics based ...
We present a new tableaux calculus deciding the ABox consistency problem for the expressive description logic ALCNHR+ . Prominent language features of ALCNHR+ are number restricti...
This paper investigates optimization techniques and data structures exploiting the use of so-called pseudo models. These techniques are applied to speed-up TBox and ABox reasoning...
Syntactic models should be descriptively adequate and parsable. A syntactic description is autonomous in the sense that it has certain explicitformal properties. Such a descriptio...
Motivated by sensor networks, we consider the fusion storage of correlated sources in a database, such that any subset of them may be efficiently retrieved in the future. Only st...