Component-oriented development of software supports the adaptability and maintainability of large systems, in particular if requirements change over time and parts of a system hav...
Description Logics (DL) are gaining more popularity as the foundation of ontology languages for the Semantic Web. As most information in real life is imperfect, there has been an ...
Separation Logic, Ambient Logic and Context Logic are based on a similar style of reasoning about structured data. They each consist of a structural (separating) composition for r...
The importance of temporal representation and reasoning is well known to the database community. Examples of such significance are the languages TSQL2 and its follow up, SQL/Tempo...
In this paper, we incorporate concrete domain and action theory into a very expressive Description Logic (DL), called ALCQO. Notably, this extension can significantly augment the ...