European research: Community agrees on Esprit

European Community research on environmental mutagenesis and carcinogenesis.

Within the 12 Member States of the European Community (EC), environmental policy is now formulated primarily at Community level. As a result, the EC has important regulatory responsibilities for the protection of workers, consumers, and the general public from risks that may arise from environmental chemicals, foremost among them potential carcinogens and mutagens. An important part of EC envir...

DWQ : ESPRIT Long Term Research

pages 70-73, AAAI Press, Boston MA, November 1996. National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Informatik V & Lehrund Forschungsgebiet Theoretische Informatik (RWTH) Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) Deutsche Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) University of Rome «La Sapienza» (Uniroma) Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica ...

ESPRIT, the European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology

At the level of individual projects, each ESPRIT project is contracted to a consortium of organisations, with a minimum of two partners from different member states; projects are typically contracted to 4 to 8 partners. A major difference for the participants is also that the Community supports 50% of the project budget, as opposed to 100% with DARPA. The other 50% contributions come from the o...

DWQ : ESPRIT Long Term Research Project

Traditionally, the core of a Terminological Knowledge Representation System (TKRS) consists of a TBox or terminology, where concepts are introduced, and an ABox or world description, where facts about individuals are stated in terms of concept memberships. This design has a drawback because in most applications the TBox has to meet two functions at a time: On the one hand|similarly to a databas...

ESPRIT Basic Research project Acclaim - Final Report