Ontologies represent knowledge in a particular area. Intellectual Property (IP) Entities lifecycle lacks any explicit standard representation, and a semantic expression of its proc...
Abstract. Many problems in Information and Data Management require a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of formulas expressing the relatio...
Abstract. State of the art formalisms for distributed ontology integration provide ways to express semantic relations between concepts belonging to different ontologies. However, t...
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...
This paper is a contribution to formal ontology study. Some entities belong more or less to a class. In particular, some individual entities are attached to classes whereas they d...