Knowledge representation systems, including ones based on Description Logics (DLs), use explanation facilities to, among others, debug knowledge bases. Until now, such facilities w...
Abstract. We examine the possibility of applying knowledge representation and automated reasoning in the context of philosophical ontology. For this purpose, we use the axioms and ...
Different kinds of agents in a multi-agent system have different knowledge structure, which results in difficulties of interaction and coordination among agents. At present, ontol...
Ontologies will play a central role in the development of the Semantic Web. It is unrealistic to assume that such ontologies will be developed from scratch. Rather, we assume that ...
Bob J. Wielinga, Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber, M...
: Recently, the software industry has published several proposals for transactional processing in the Web service world. Even though most proposals support arbitrary transaction mo...