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COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Formal Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman
RR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating Formalisms for Modular Ontologies in Distributed Information Systems
Modern semantic technology is one of the necessary supports for the infrastructure of next generation information systems. In particular, large international organizations, which u...
Yimin Wang, Jie Bao, Peter Haase, Guilin Qi
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Modelling Models of Robot Navigation Using Formal Spatial Ontology
Abstract. In this paper we apply a formal ontological framework in order to deconstruct two prominent approaches to navigation from cognitive robotics, the Spatial Semantic Hierarc...
John A. Bateman, Scott Farrar
KCAP
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL
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...
Alan L. Rector
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
A Goal-Directed Implementation of Query Answering for Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases
Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rules use non...
Ana Sofia Gomes, José Júlio Alferes,...