Making Rules: An Introduction

an introduction to a new optimal urban policy – making

cconcerning the emer gence of substantial changes in major cities within the past two decades and its relationship to a set of ideas which envisage the emergence of a new urban era, this article will try to examine the different aspects of the new urban policies as a necessary response to a new national and international economy. cconcerning the emer gence of substantial changes in major cities...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction

The Rules in Institutional Care: An Ethnographic Style Study Introduction

Background: The purpose of this paper is to report on one area of findings that came from a larger doctoral study looking at what life was like for older people in receipt of long-term care in a hospital environment that was due for closure. Method: Over the period of a year, the study's researcher regularly frequented a longterm care ward as a 'visitor'. Over time, she witnessed many day to da...

An Introduction to Ontology-Based Query Answering with Existential Rules

The need for an ontological layer on top of data, associated with advanced reasoning mechanisms able to exploit ontological knowledge, has been acknowledged in the database, knowledge representation and Semantic Web communities. We focus here on the ontology-based data querying problem, which consists in querying data while taking ontological knowledge into account. To tackle this problem, we c...