Abstract. An ontology is a model of a domain of knowledge. The knowledge that is captured in an ontology can be used for providing interoperability, sharing of information and redu...
We present typing rules for the Web query language Xcerpt. The rules provide a descriptive type system: the typing of a program is an ation of its semantics. The rules can also be ...
Abstract. Bayesian nets (BNs) appeared in the 1980s as a solution to computational and representational problems encountered in knowledge representation of uncertain information. S...
Abstract. State machines, represented by statecharts or statechart diagrams, are an important formalism for behavioural modelling. According to the research literature, the most po...
Abstract. Use Cases are widely used for specifying systems, but their semantics are unclear in ways that make it difficult to apply use cases to complex problems. In this paper, we...