The W3C's Semantic Web Activity is illustrating the use of semantics for information integration, search, and analysis. However, the majority of the work in this community ha...
A person adds new knowledge to his/her mind, taking into account new information, additional details, better precision, synonyms, homonyms, redundancies, apparent contradictions, a...
Abstract--Collaborating agents require either prior agreement on the shared vocabularies that they use for communication, or some means of translating between their private ontolog...
Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. J...
RDF(S) and OWL 2 currently support only static ontologies. In practice, however, the truth of statements often changes with time, and Semantic Web applications often need to repres...
Abstract. The fields of philosophy and informatics entertain two somewhat different conceptions of ontology. Philosophical ontology is a branch of metaphysics dating back at least ...