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EKAW
2000
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Formal Ontology of Properties
A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a v...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Mapping Properties of Heterogeneous Ontologies
Abstract. State of the art formalisms for distributed ontology integration provide ways to express semantic relations between concepts belonging to different ontologies. However, t...
Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Formalizing typicality of objects and context-sensitivity in ontologies
In multiagent systems ontologies are essential because they facilitate tasks like communications and reasoning. In this paper, inspired by studies in cognitive psychology, we pres...
Ching-man Au Yeung, Ho-fung Leung
FOIS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Formalizing Ontology Alignment and its Operations with Category Theory
An ontology alignment is the expression of relations between different ontologies. In order to view alignments independently from the language expressing ontologies and from the te...
Antoine Zimmermann, Markus Krötzsch, Jé...
ADVIS
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Contextual Ontologies
Abstract. Contextual ontologies are ontologies that characterize a concept by a set of properties that vary according to context. Contextual ontologies are now crucial for users wh...
Djamal Benslimane, Ahmed Arara, Gilles Falquet, Za...