FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
This paper examines the concepts biological function (BF) and functioning as they are used in recent work on formal ontology and its applications in the biomedical domain. My purpo...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
The Gene Ontology captures information at a very small scale, namely: molecular function, biological process, and cellular components. At this level, the Gene Ontology project shou...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
The focus of this paper are actions in which agents employ instruments in order to achieve desired outcomes. I explore the ontological structure of such actions and the semantic fe...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
The paper analyzes how and under which assumptions it is possible to compare (in a relationist setting and relatively to qualities) entities living in different worlds. We begin wi...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
An ontology alignment is the expression of relations between different ontologies. In order to view alignments independently from the language expressing ontologies and from the te...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
This article reflects an ongoing effort to systematize the use of terms applied by philosophers and computer scientists in the context of ontology and ontological engineering. We s...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
In this paper we present methods to generate a Description Logic (DL) theory from a given First Order Logic (FOL) theory, such that each DL axiom is entailed by the given FOL theor...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
Ontologies are used as a means of expressing agreements to a vocabulary shared by a community in a coherent and consistent manner. As it happens in the Internet, ontologies are cr...