Abstract. In this paper we report on preliminary work and architectural design carried out in the "Data Management" work package in the International Data Grid project. O...
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and Lycos), ecommerce (such as Amazon and eBay), configura...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Richard Fikes, James Rice, ...
In this paper, we describe which roles deep structures of law play in (automatic) drafting legislation. Deep structures contain a formal description of the intended normative effe...
Dozens of temporal extension of the relational data model and of the query language SQL have appeared in recent years. Recently, a committee formed by researchers from the academi...
Often the process and effort in building interoperable Command and Control (C2) systems and simulations can be arduous. Invariably the difficulty is in understanding what is inten...