Historically, software application systems have been produced either individually tailored for the specific customer, or they have been adapted from standardized packages. This pa...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
In this paper, we propose a Core Grid Ontology (CGO) that defines fundamental Grid-specific concepts, and the relationships between them. One of the key goals is to make this Co...
We present a web system architecture using ontologies to improve the behavior of the system from the performance viewpoint. Since web system performance indexes depend on state an...