Applications of semantic technologies often require the representation of and reasoning with structured objects--that is, objects composed of parts connected in complex ways. Alth...
With increasing popularity of using ontologies, many industrial and clinical applications have employed ontologies as their conceptual backbone. Ontologies try to capture knowledge...
A domain independent model is proposed for the automated interpretation of nominal compounds in English. This model is meant to account for productive rules of interpretation whic...
As XML is gathering more and more importance in the field of data interchange in distributed business to business (B2B) applications, it is increasingly important to provide a for...
We define the robustness of a sequential plan as the probability that it will execute successfully despite uncertainty in the execution environment. We consider a rich notion of u...