Digital forensics is the process of employing scientific principles and processes to analyze
electronically stored information and determine the sequence of events which led to a …

Temporal information is crucial in electronic medical records and biomedical information
systems. Processing temporal information in medical narrative data is a very challenging …

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.
Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive …

A proper understanding of the general nature, potential and obligations of electronic
services may be achieved by examining existing commercial services in detail. The …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

The notion of time is uniquitous in any activity that requires intelligence. In particular, several
important notions like change, causality, action are described in terms of time. Therefore, the …

This collection represents the primary reference work for researchers and students in the
area of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. Temporal reasoning has a vital role to …

This thesis describes new approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse.
Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing …

We describe a procedure for arranging into a time-line the contents of news stories
describing the development of some situation. We describe the parts of the system that deal …

In this article, we propose a change detection approach in the context of an ontology
evolution framework for OWL DL ontologies. The framework allows ontology engineers to …