Recent years have seen the advent of large and complex ontologies, most notably in the medical domain. As a consequence, structuring mechanisms for ontologies are nowadays viewed ...
Boris Konev, Carsten Lutz, Denis Ponomaryov, Frank...
Modularity is a key requirement for large ontologies in order to achieve re-use, maintainability, and evolution. Mechanisms for ‘normalisation’ to achieve analogous aims are s...
Ontologies play a core role in the success of the Semantic Web as they provide a shared vocabulary for different resources and applications. Developing an error-free ontology is a...
The development of ontologies involves continuous but relatively small modifications. However, existing ontology reasoners do not take advantage of the similarities between differe...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, ...
The conceptual formalism supported by an ontology is not sufficient for handling vague information that is commonly found in many application domains. We describe how to introduce...