In Defense of a Trope-Based Ontology for Conceptual Modeling: An Example with the Foundations...
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in approaches that employ foundational ontologies as theoretical tools for...
Explicitly Representing Superimposed Information in a Conceptual Model
Superimposed information (SI) refers to new information such as annotations and summaries overlaid on fragments of existing base information...
Preference Functional Dependencies for Managing Choices
The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization...
Automatic Creation of Web Services from Extraction Ontologies
The Semantic Web promises to provide timely, targeted access to user-specified information online. Though standardized services exist for performing...
Modeling Visibility in Hierarchical Systems
We consider hierarchical systems where nodes represent entities and edges represent binary relationships among them. An example is a...
An Architecture for Emergent Semantics
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of...
A Model for Anticipatory Event Detection
Event detection is a very important area of research that discovers new events reported in a stream of text...
Semantic Web Techniques for Personalization of eGovernment Services
In this paper, we present the results of an ongoing research involving the design and implementation of systems supporting...
A Framework for Integrating XML Transformations
XML is the de facto standard for representing and exchanging data on the World Wide Web and XSLT is...
Query Graph Model for SPARQL
Several query languages for RDF have been proposed before the World Wide Web Consortium started to standardize SPARQL. Due...
