: We report about ongoing research in a virtual reality environment where visitors can interact with agents that help them to obtain information, to peform certain transactions and...
In this paper, we describe the concept of ontological design. We show how ontologies can be used as cognitive maps of complex, ill-structured, plastic problems. They can be used t...
Developing and analyzing schedules is essential for successfully controlling the time aspect of construction projects. The critical path method of scheduling is by far the most wi...
Conceptual-relational mappings between conceptual models and relational schemas have been used increasingly to achieve interoperability or overcome impedance mismatch in modern dat...
This work is done as part of the Tacos project1 whose aims is to define a component-based approach to specify trustworthy systems from the requirements phase to the specification p...