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COOPIS
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Role of Foundational Ontologies in Manufacturing Domain Applications
1 Although ontology has gained wide attention in the area of information systems, a criticism typical of the early days is still rehearsed here and there. Roughly, this criticism s...
Stefano Borgo, Paulo Leitão
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Ontologies At Work: Publishing Multilingual Recreational Routes Using Ontologies
Even though there is nothing new about the idea, ontologies are a hot topic. Built for many reasons and appliances, the use of ontologies in real-life applications remains limited...
Bert Paepen
ERCIMDL
1999
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Integrating Ontologies and Thesauri to Build RDF Schemas
In this paper we present a new approach for building RDF schemas by integrating existing ontologies and structured vocabularies (thesauri). We will present a simple mechanism base...
Bernd Amann, Irini Fundulaki
SEMWEB
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Scalable Framework for the Interoperation of Information Sources
Resolving heterogeneity among information systems is a crucial necessity if we wish to gain value from the many distributed resources available to us. Problems of heterogeneity in ...
Prasenjit Mitra, Gio Wiederhold, Stefan Decker
SEKE
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Ontology-Related Services in Agent-Based Distributed Information Infrastructures
Ontologies are an emerging paradigm to support declarativity, interoperability, and intelligent services in many areas, such as Agent–based Computation, Distributed Information ...
Ludger van Elst, Andreas Abecker
SSD
2009
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
TOQL: Temporal Ontology Querying Language
We introduce TOQL, a query language for querying time information in ontologies. TOQL is a high level query language that handles ontologies almost like relational databases. Queri...
Evdoxios Baratis, Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Sotiri...
ACIIDS
2009
IEEE
122views Database» more  ACIIDS 2009»
13 years 10 months ago
Student Modelling Based on Ontologies
— In this paper I show how ontologies support the student modelling through the semantic definition of concepts that depict a student. The aim is to outline the framework for bui...
Alejandro Peña Ayala
WIDM
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
XWebSOGO: an ontology language to describe and query web sources
Ontologies play an important role in the Semantic Web. Currently, several Web ontology languages have been proposed and there has been a substantial effort towards the formalizat...
Edna Ruckhaus, Maria-Esther Vidal
KCAP
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL
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...
Alan L. Rector
WISE
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ontology Generation from Tables
At the heart of today’s information-explosion problems are issues involving semantics, mutual understanding, concept matching, and interoperability. Ontologies and the Semantic ...
Yuri A. Tijerino, David W. Embley, Deryle W. Lonsd...