In extraordinary situations, certain individuals may require access to information for which they are not normally authorized. For example, to facilitate rescue of people trapped ...
Cynthia E. Irvine, Timothy E. Levin, Paul C. Clark...
Abstract. This paper discusses the approach of ontology-based knowledge engineering in FF POIROT, a project to explore the use of ontology technology in information systems against...
Gang Zhao, John Kingston, Koen Kerremans, Frederic...
In today’s electronic system-level (ESL) design processes, an early analysis of a system’s communication and nce characteristics is becoming a key challenge. The availability ...
Axel G. Braun, Joachim Gerlach, Wolfgang Rosenstie...
Self-contextualizability refers to the system ability to autonomously adapt its behaviour to context in order to maintain its objectives satisfied. In this paper, we propose a mod...
Today, the Web is increasingly used as a platform for distributed services, which transcend organizational boundaries to form federated applications. Consequently, there is a grow...