introduction: the goal of integration of digital libraries (dl) is to utilize various autonomous dls in concert to provide knowledge from such island-dls. integrated digital libraries (idls) appeared after the emergence of dls in 1990s, invention of integrated information systems from 2000 and consolidation of them during the recent decade. the ministry of health and medical education (mhme) of...

Fuzzy Description Logics (fuzzy DLs) allow to describe structured knowledge with vague concepts. Unlike classical DLs, in fuzzy DLs an answer is a set of tuples ranked according to the degree they satisfy the query. In this paper, we consider fuzzy DL-Lite. We show how to compute efficiently the top-k answers of a complex query (i.e. conjunctive queries) over a huge set of instances.

This position paper will describe the intended use of De. scription Logics (DLs) in a particular conceptual information retrieval system, the Condorcet system. First the Condorcet system is introduced, focusing on knowledge representational and reasoning aspects and criteria. Second, based on these requirements, we will argue that DLs are particularly promising candidates for knowledge represen...

Description logics (DLs) of context can be employed to represent and reason about contextualized knowledge, which naturally occurs in practice [5,4,7,9,8]. Consider, for instance, the rôles played by a person in different contexts. The person Bob, who works for the company Siemens, plays the rôle of an employee of Siemens in the work context, whereas he might play the rôle of a customer of Siem...

Microbial fuel cells (MFC) with 30% wet-proofed air cathodes have previously been optimized to have 4 diffusion layers (DLs) in order to limit oxygen transfer into the anode chamber and optimize performance. Newer MFC designs that allow close electrode spacing have a separator that can also reduce oxygen transfer into the anode chamber, and there are many types of carbon wet-proofed materials a...

This book is about digital libraries as sociotechnical systems—networks of technology, information, documents, people, and practices. It is about digital libraries’ interactions with the larger world of work, institutions, knowledge, and society, as well as with the production of knowledge. And it is about creating, managing, and evaluating DLs. The term digital library (DL) encompasses a wide ...

PURPOSE To determine the safety, tolerability and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of addition of erlotinib to bevacizumab and capecitabine-based definitive chemoradiation (CRT) in unresectable pancreatic cancer. METHODS Seventeen patients with CT-staged, biopsy-proven unresectable pancreatic cancer were enrolled between 3/2008 and 10/2010. Prior chemotherapy was permitted. Two patients each were...