We focus on the productionof efficient descriptionsof objects, actions and events. We define a type of efficiency, textualeconomy, thatexploitsthe hearer’s recognitionof infe...
In this paper, we present methods of translating transactions from object-oriented database(OODB) to relational database(RDB). The process involves schema mapping in data definiti...
This paper presents a logic based language, SAFIN, for developing networked software agents. It integrates agent-oriented programming, KQML and basic mobile techniques to support ...
The social and economic importance of large bodies of programs and data that are potentially long-lived has attracted much attention in the commercial and research communities. Her...
The semantic integration of manufacturing systems has been impeded by the lack of rigorous ontologies for specific domains of manufacturing processes and resources. In this paper w...