The paper presents a new reflective model, called Channel Reification, which can be used in distributed computations to overcome difficulties experienced by other models in the literature when monitoring communication among objects. The channel is an extension of the message reification model. A Channel is a communication manager incarning successive messages exchanges by two objects: its appli...

Reification of propositions expressing states, events, and properties has been widely advocated as a means of handling temporal reasoning in A I . The author proposes that such reification is both philosophically suspect and technically unnecessary. The reified theories of Allen and Shoham are examined and it is shown how they can be unreified. The resulting loss of expressive power can be rect...

This paper proposes a new visualization and reification framework for the integrated interactive access and reuse of both database records and Web contents including services. Our framework has integrated the database visualization and reification framework and the Web application wrapping framework. The Web application wrapping framework allows users to specify arbitrary HTML nodes on an arbit...

In this paper we introduce the pattern literal reification, a modelling technique to address scenarios, in which we need to bless particular literals, usually when applying data properties, in order to use them as subjects and/or full-fledged objects of semantic assertions.

Reified theories have been used widely in knowledge representation. From an ontological perspective, reification involve populating the ontology with event or property types and tokens. While type reification has been used in many works, it has been criticized as being philosophically unsound, and token reification has been advocated in its place by Galton. In this paper, we take the position o...