The design and maintenance of ontologies is a complex social collaborative activity, and this is true especially for semantic-web ontologies. On the one hand, such activity calls ...
Aldo Gangemi, Jos Lehmann, Valentina Presutti, Mal...
The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) defines a set of UML metamodels and profiles for development of RDF and OWL. The UML profiles in the ODM specification adapt UML notations t...
Elisa F. Kendall, Roy Bell, Roger Burkhart, Mark D...
The desire to share and reuse knowledge has led to the establishment of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) knowledge representation language. The Naturnet-Redime project needs to shar...
Domain ontology building is one of the most critical activities required in Semantic Web applications. The task must be performed by domain experts, who do not (generally) have the...
Fulvio D'Antonio, Michele Missikoff, Francesco Tag...
Ontologies reflect our view of what exists and developing ontologies for a given domain requires a common context. This context can be characterized explicitly by means of an uppe...
Rafael Batres, Matthew West, David Leal, David Pri...