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ESWS
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
TrOWL: Tractable OWL 2 Reasoning Infrastructure
The Semantic Web movement has led to the publication of thousands of ontologies online. These ontologies present and mediate information and knowledge on the Semantic Web. Tools ex...
Edward Thomas, Jeff Z. Pan, Yuan Ren
KR
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Environment for Merging and Testing Large Ontologies
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and Lycos), ecommerce (such as Amazon and eBay), configura...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Richard Fikes, James Rice, ...
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Semantic Network Analysis of Ontologies
A key argument for modeling knowledge in ontologies is the easy re-use and re-engineering of the knowledge. However, beside consistency checking, current ontology engineering tools...
Bettina Hoser, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke,...
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are designed and built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large fo...
Harith Alani, Stephen Harris, Ben O'Neil
ER
2006
Springer
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Combining Declarative and Procedural Knowledge to Automate and Represent Ontology Mapping
Ontologies on the Semantic Web are by nature decentralized. From the body of ontology mapping approaches, we can draw a conclusion that an effective approach to automate ontology m...
Li Xu, David W. Embley, Yihong Ding
ECTEL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Rethinking the Use of Ontologies in Learning
Abstract. This paper investigates the use of ontologies in processes of collaborative learning and knowledge generation. The creation and use of ontologies is analysed from an acti...
Heidrun Allert, Hannu Markkanen, Christoph Richter
DALT
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Towards Theory Translation
Ontologies play a key role in agent communication and the emerging Semantic Web to define a vocabulary of concepts and their relationships. Different agents and web services may us...
Dejing Dou, Drew V. McDermott
DEXAW
2004
IEEE
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OntoEditor: A Web Tool for Manipulating Ontologies Stored in Database Servers
The Web is moving to a new generation in which machine-understandable processing is mandatory. In order to achieve this goal it is essential to define ontologies which enable the ...
Cláudio de Souza Baptista, Karine F. Vascon...
CAISE
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Pattern for Designing Distributed Heterogeneous Ontologies for Facilitating Application Interoperability
The role of ontologies in knowledge base systems is gradually increasing. Along with the growth of Internet based applications and ecommerce, the need for easy interoperability bet...
M. Chenine, Vandana Kabilan, M. Garcia Lozano
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Aligning Ontologies and Evaluating Concept Similarities
An innate characteristic of the development of ontologies is that they are often created by independent groups of expertise, which generates the necessity of merging and aligning o...
Kleber Xavier Sampaio de Souza, Joseph Davis