: Component retrieval, about how to locate and identify appropriate components, is one of the major problems in component reuse. It becomes more critical as more reusable component...
Abstract: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning can be greatly improved if metric information can be represented and reasoning can be performed on it; moreover, modelling vagueness and unc...
Ontologies are expected to play an important role in many application domains, as well as in software engineering in general. One problem with using ontologies within software engi...
Abstract. HermiT is a new OWL reasoner based on a novel "hypertableau" calculus. The new calculus addresses performance problems due to nondeterminism and model size--the...
The problem of representing and reasoning about two notions of time that are relevant in the context of knowledge bases is addressed. These are called historical time and belief t...