With the increasing use of ontologies in Semantic Web and enterprise knowledge management, it is critical to develop scalable and efficient ontology management systems. In this pap...
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Discrete-event (DE) models are formal system specifications that have analyzable deterministic behaviors. Using a global, consistent notion of time, DE components communicate via...
Performance modeling and evaluation of embedded hardware/software systems is important to help the CoDesign process. The hardware/software partitioning needs to be evaluated befor...
Jean Paul Calvez, Dominique Heller, Olivier Pasqui...
Optical scan electronic voting machines employ software components that are customized for each specific election. Such software components are critical from a security and integr...
Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, La...
A major challenge for ontology integration is to deal with inconsistencies. Existing merging tools are based on classical logic and are forced to avoid inconsistencies (to prevent...
Fahim T. Imam, Wendy MacCaull, Margaret Ann Kenned...