Focusing on the Ontology Change problem, we consider an environment where Description Logics (DLs) are the logical formalization to express knowledge bases, and the integration of distributed ontologies is developed under new extensions and modifications of the Belief Revision theories…

The essay  wants to introduce a mapping base, currently in progress, relative to museums, archives of fashion, costume galleries, present in Italy, such as constituent elements for the construction of a tourist guide, dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of…

In this editorial, I notify to the community the adoption of the Open Journal Systems platform as the publishing environment of Intangible Capital. I also give notice of the new initiatives that the editors of the journal will develop in…

"Oral Health for Healthy life" the theme for World Health Day by WHO for 1998 (1).No one can be truly healthy unless he or she is free from the burden of oral and craniofacial diseases and conditions (2). Oral health…

In recent years, there has been an increasingly pervasive discourse regarding the need for high levels of post-secondary education for life course success in a knowledge economy. Correspondingly, most Western industrialized nations have seen a drastic increase in university enrolment.…

Knowledge about the rates of pedogenic processes is essential to understand landscape development and history. It can be attained by the quantitative investigation of soil chronosequences. In this work, the development of Chromic Luvisols in the Mediterranean is addressed. The…

At the heart of the network neutrality debate is a challenging institutional design problem: the selection of a regime to govern the relations between the stakeholders in the complex value net of advanced communication services, most importantly between platform operators…

Margrethe H. Møller interviews Lisbeth Kjeldgaard Almsten(translator/coauthor: Birthe Toft)“If you think that terminology work is simply a matter of buying terminology management software and getting started, you are in for trouble” At Crisplant, we have been doing terminology management for…

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic is a relatively recent development challenge and human tragedy that faces global society particularly developing countries. This disease has no effective method for cure or treatment thus, the need to intensify preventive behavior in both…

In this work two declarative approaches based on the BDI theory are studied, an agent programming language 3APL and an agent architecture that uses defeasible argumentation for knowledge representation and reasoning. Based on that study and considering that in 3APL…