: In a collaborative computer-supported engineering environment, the interoperation of various applications will need a representation that goes beyond the current geometry-based r...
Christel Dartigues, Parisa Ghodous, Michael Grunin...
Ontologies are consensual representations of a domain of discourse and the backbone of the future Semantic Web. Currently, however, only a fraction of Web users can take part in t...
Martin Hepp, Daniel Bachlechner, Katharina Siorpae...
This paper describes the software infrastructure introduced within the AgentService framework in order to provide support for ontology design, development, and management. Ontolog...
Antonio Boccalatte, Andrea Gozzi, Alberto Grosso, ...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Semantic web ontology languages, such as OWL, have been widely used for knowledge representation. Through empirical analysis of real-world ontologies we discover that, like many n...