Web services technologies enable flexible and dynamic interoperation of autonomous software and information systems. A central challenge is the development of modeling techniques ...
This paper describes the latest version of the ABC metadata model. This model has been developed within the Harmony international digital library project to provide a common conce...
Natural language-based conceptual modelling as well as the use of diagrams have been essential components of fact-oriented modelling from its inception. However, transforming natur...
Whereas abandonment of detailed regulation is widely asserted to be the true way along with the fluctuations of the business models and emergence of IP-based services, there are s...
Many popular ontology languages are based on (subsets of) first-order predicate logic, with classes represented by unary predicates and properties by binary predicates. Specificall...