Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
For decades, researchers in knowledge representation (KR) have argued for and against various choices in KR formalisms, such as Rules, Frames, Semantic nets, and Formal logic. In ...
In Japan, the “Period of Integrated Study” program to enhance practical skills began in elementary and secondary education in 2002. Most goals of this program involve meta-abil...
The notion of spatio-temporal multi-granularity is fundamental when modeling objects in GIS applications in that it supports the representation of the temporal evolutions of these ...
Today ontology languages present a syntax which looks not “natural” and are lacking of built-in primitives (i.e., modeling notions) domain experts are familiar with. In this pa...