AO
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
in ontology is quite abstract and often based on toy-examples to the point that the gap between the work of theoreticians and the needs of real applications is too wide to be cross...
MIE
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The application of upper ontologies has been repeatedly advocated for supporting interoperability between domain ontologies in order to facilitate shared data use both within and a...
FOMI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
I develop a few suggestions how formal ontology can meet industry and practice. This is not just a matter of useful ontology-based applications. That is a necessary but also rather...
EKAW
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a v...
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
This paper presents the outline of a formal ontology of contexts. More specifically, it deals with the ontology of ecological contexts (niches, habitats, environments, ambients) an...