This paper formally investigates the relationship between Open Logic Programming (OLP) and Description Logics (DL). A description logic is designed to represent two diierent forms of knowledge. A T-Box represents deenitional knowledge, i.e. deenitions for a set of concepts. An A-Box represents assertional knowledge about speciic domain objects. OLP is a declarative, terminological interpretatio...

The performance of a natural language system trained on one domain often drops significantly when testing on another domain. Therefore, the problem of domain adaptation remains one of the most important natural language processing challenges. While many different domain adaptation frameworks have been proposed, they have ignored one natural resource – the prior knowledge on the new domain. In t...

During maintenance activities programmers make pervasive use of domain knowledge about the code that they maintain. Unfortunately, most of the current program analysis techniques do not explicitly take into consideration knowledge about the domain of the analyzed program. In this paper we advocate the need to use the domain knowledge explicitly in reverse engineering in order to enhance the cur...

Research questions and practical exchange between Knowledge Engineering for intelligent systems and Software Engineering of advanced software programs have been fruitfully discussed over the last years. Many successful examples demonstrate the clear symbiosis between these two research areas. In 2005 the KESE workshops took place for the first time in Koblenz at the 28th German Conference on Ar...

At its core, the practice of medicine is an informationintensive endeavor. Most of what physicians do involves the collection, review, and management of information. Examples of such activities include obtaining and recording patient information, consulting colleagues, reading the scientific literature, planning diagnostic procedures, devising strategies for patient care, interpreting tests, an...

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Cloud infrastructures needs to become more smarter and dynamic in managing resources, requiring new solutions and tools to cope with processes of configuration and reconfiguration, automatic scaling, elastic computing and healthiness control. This paper presents a Smart Cloud solution for automatically managing cloud infrastructures, and programming the monitoring aspects directly from the conf...