Abstract. The definition of a domain ontology is a complex activity that requires two kinds of expertise: a deep knowledge of the domain to be modeled and a good level of familiari...
Knowledge acquisition and maintenance in medical domains with a large application domain ontology is a difficult task. To reduce knowledge elicitation costs, semi-automatic learni...
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...
Domain reference ontologies represent knowledge about a particular part of the world in a way that is independent from specific objectives, through a theory of the domain. An exam...
Abstract. When developing situation awareness applications we begin by constructing an OWL ontology to capture a language of discourse for the domain of interest. Such an ontology,...
Christopher J. Matheus, Kenneth Baclawski, Mieczys...