The paper considers the problem of defining concepts within formal ontologies. A number of distinct modes of definition are identified, which represent alternative viewpoints on t...
In a reputation-based trust management system an entity’s behaviour determines its reputation which in turn affects other entities interaction with it. We present a mathematical...
Because botanical taxonomies are prototypical classifications it would seem that it should be easy to formalize them as concept lattices or type hierarchies. On closer inspection,...
Modeling and formally analyzing active network systems and protocols is quite challenging, due to their highly dynamic nature and the need for new network models. We propose a wid...
Protein association discovery can directly contribute toward developing protein pathways; hence it is a significant problem in bioinformatics. LUCAS (Library of User-Oriented Conc...