Approximate Probabilistic Query Answering over Inconsistent Databases
The problem of managing and querying inconsistent databases has been deeply investigated in the last few years. Most of...
Conjunctive Query Containment under Access Limitations
Access limitations may occur when querying data sources over the web or heterogeneous data sources presented as relational tables:...
Automatic Extraction of Structurally Coherent Mini-Taxonomies
Today, ontologies are being used to model a domain of knowledge in semantic web. OWL is considered to be...
A Multi-level Methodology for Developing UML Sequence Diagrams
Although the importance of UML Sequence Diagrams is well recognized by the object-oriented community, they remain a very difficult...
Analysis and Reuse of Plots Using Similarity and Analogy
A plot is a partially ordered set of events. Plot analysis is a relevant source of knowledge about the...
Content Ontology Design Patterns as Practical Building Blocks for Web Ontologies
In this paper we present how to extract and describe emerging content ontology design patterns, and how to compose,...
Discovering Semantically Similar Associations (SeSA) for Complex Mappings between Conceptual Models
There is an increasing demand for discovering meaningful relationships, i.e., mappings, between conceptual models for interoperability. Current solutions have...
Quality Patterns for Conceptual Modelling
Patterns have generated a large interest during last years. In software engineering, a pattern is a reusable solution based...
An Adverbial Approach for the Formal Specification of Topological Constraints Involving Regions with Broad...
Topological integrity constraints control the topological properties of spatial objects and the validity of their topological relationships in spatial...
Automating the Extraction of Rights and Obligations for Regulatory Compliance
Government regulations are increasingly affecting the security, privacy and governance of information systems in the United States, Europe and...
