Using category theoretic notions, in particular diagrams and their colimits, we provide a common semantic backbone for various notions of modularity in structured ontologies, and o...
Participation in the web of communities requires a common language, a common technological structure and development of content that is relevant and captivating. This paper report...
We develop a formal framework for modular ontologies by analysing four notions of conservative extensions and their applications in refining, re-using, merging, and segmenting ont...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
Protein Data Integration approaches at the moment considers data sources as data repositories, but not as applications; which in turn may embody complex interactions with other da...
Amandeep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Cha...
We study the problem of deciding whether two ontologies are inseparable w.r.t. a signature Σ, i.e., whether they have the same consequences in the signature Σ. A special case is...