In this paper we present an architecture that augments existing semantic-based web service discovery solutions. The idea is to combine principles from the semantic and pragmatic web in order for the web service selection process to become more efficient and effective. We utilize offer and request xml files to describe the functional properties (inputs/outputs) and context parameters of web serv...

ion. Publication 6, “Pragmatic-Driven Approach for Service-Oriented Analysis and Design” (2008) emphasises the importance of computation-neutral modelling and bridging between the pragmatic and semantic aspects of business processes and data. The research on the relativity of semantic roles (Publication 1) has also contributed to the development of a pragmatic-driven, service-oriented analysis ...

Recent experiments have shown that naive speakers find borderline contradictions involving vague predicates acceptable. In Cobreros et al (2012a) we proposed a pragmatic explanation of the acceptability of borderline contradictions, building on a three-valued semantics. In a reply, Alxatib, Pagin & Sauerland (2013) show, however, that the pragmatic account predicts the wrong interpretations for...

Efficient methodological support of process modeling is an important prerequisite for the identification of modernization and automation potentials in public administrations. This paper analyzes the specific properties of processes in public administrations and discusses the potential benefits of reuse of process building blocks from a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic perspective.

We study various shortcut fusion rules for languages like Haskell. Following a careful semantic account of a recently proposed rule for circular program transformation, we propose a new rule that trades circularity for higher-orderedness, and thus attains better semantic properties. This also leads us to revisit the original foldr/build-rule, as well as its dual, and to develop variants that do...

There is now general agreement about the optionality of scalar implicatures: the pragmatic interpretation will be accessed depending on the context relative to which the utterance is interpreted. The question, then, is what makes a context upper- (vs. lower-) bounding. Neo-Gricean accounts should predict that contexts including factual information will enhance the rate of pragmatic interpretati...

Rule Responder is a Pragmatic Web infrastructure for distributed rule-based event processing multi-agent eco-systems. This allows specifying virtual organizations – with their shared and individual (semantic and pragmatic) contexts, decisions, and actions/events for rule-based collaboration between the distributed members. The (semi-)autonomous agents use rule engines and Semantic Web rules to ...

Abstract As a result of the rapid development en plan in contemporary Spanish wide range recent studies have paid attention to grammaticalization process transforming this adverbial locution (meaning ‘in certain way, with purpose’) into pragmatic marker. However, previous research fails capture complex semantic networks and synchronic multifunctionality . The present study takes on polygrammati...