Ontology alignment foundations are hard to find in the literature. The abstract nature of the topic and the diverse means of practice make it difficult to capture it in a universal formal foundation. We argue that such a lack of formality hinders further development and convergence of practices, and in particular, prevents us from achieving greater levels of automation. In this article we prese...

It is shown, that the Boltzmann-like equations allow the formulation of a very general model for behavioral changes. This model takes into account spontaneous (or externally induced) behavioral changes and behavioral changes by pair interactions. As most important social pair interactions imitative and avoidance processes are distinguished. The resulting model turns out to include as special ca...

This paper reconsiders the developments of model evaluation in macroeconometrics over the last forty years. Our analysis starts from the failure of Cowles foundation models. The different diagnosis of this failure are then analyzed to classify them in two groups: explanations related to problems in the theoretical models that lead to problems in the identification of the relevant econometric mo...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 12131 “Open Models as a Foundation of Future Enterprise Systems”. Research on open models introduces a new model of collaboration among researchers, developers, and prospective users of reference enterprise models—leading to the prospect of shaping future enterprise systems. This seminar brought together researchers and prac...

Inference in expressive probabilistic models is generally intractable, which makes them difficult to learn and limits their applicability. Sumproduct networks are a class of deep models where, surprisingly, inference remains tractable even when an arbitrary number of hidden layers are present. In this paper, we generalize this result to a much broader set of learning problems: all those where i...

The increasing number of available software components and competing interoperability standards render the selection, composition, and configuration of software components increasingly complex. In order to support the domain expert in these processes comprehensive, comparable, and sufficiently abstract component descriptions are required. In this paper, we abstract from the specifics of the com...