An important activity in the design of a particular database application consists in identifying the integrity constraints that must hold on the database, and that are used to det...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Clodove...
This paper considers an integration of asynchronous communication, virtual binding, and multiple inheritance. Object orientation is the leading paradigm for concurrent and distribu...
The ability to analyse and represent formally semantic relations of terms is a core issue in information retrieval (IR), natural language processing (NLP), and in many related are...
We describe a method and its implementation for self-monitoring during natural language generation. In situations of communication where the generation of ambiguous utterances sho...
Constructing and maintaining semantic mappings are necessary but troublesome in data sharing systems. While most current work focuses on seeking automated techniques to solve this...