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FOIS
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Foundations for an Ontology of Environment and Habitat
Abstract. The paper examines the semantics of the terms `environment' and `habitat' and presents a semi-formalised ontological framework in which these concepts are relat...
Brandon Bennett
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts
This paper presents the outline of a formal ontology of contexts. More specifically, it deals with the ontology of ecological contexts (niches, habitats, environments, ambients) an...
Barry Smith, Achille C. Varzi
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Theoretical foundations and engineering tools for building ontologies as reference conceptual models
Abstract. Perhaps the most fundamental notion underlying the desiderata for a successful Semantic Web is Semantic Interoperability. In this context, ontologies have been more and m...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Progressive ontology alignment for meaning coordination: an information-theoretic foundation
We elaborate on the mathematical foundations of the meaning coordination problem that agents face in open environments. We investigate to which extend the BarwiseSeligman theory o...
W. Marco Schorlemmer, Yannis Kalfoglou
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
An Ontology-Based Architecture for Tracking Information across Interactive Electronic Environments
This paper presents technical foundation, roadmap and initial results of the IDIOM project (Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media). Information spreads rapidly acr...
Arno Scharl, Albert Weichselbraun