One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
Conceptual Information Systems provide a multi-dimensional conceptually structured view on data stored in relational databases. On restricting the expressiveness of the retrieval l...
In this paper we show by using the example of UML, how a software engineering method can bene t from an integrative mathematical foundation. The mathematical foundation is given b...
Ruth Breu, Radu Grosu, Franz Huber, Bernhard Rumpe...
The steadily increasing complexity of embedded systems requires comprehensive methodoloat support the design process from the highest possible abstraction level. In most of the cu...
Abstract. We study the problem of instance level (ABox) updates for Knowledge Bases (KBs) represented in Description Logics of the DL-Lite family. DLLite is at the basis of OWL 2 Q...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...