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AAI
2010
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Augmenting Subsumption Propagation in Distributed Description Logics
Distributed Description Logics (DDL) enable reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping, called bridge rules. Bridge rules map concepts of a s...
Martin Homola, Luciano Serafini
MM
2010
ACM
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Web-based semantic browsing of video collections using multimedia ontologies
In this technical demonstration we present a novel web-based tool that allows a user friendly semantic browsing of video collections, based on ontologies, concepts, concept relati...
Marco Bertini, Gianpaolo D'Amico, Andrea Ferracani...
GI
2008
Springer
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Semi-Automatic Ontology Engineering in Business Applications
: Search technology can be applied to many applications and is in the heart of always growing information society. A promising new development is the use of ontologies to enable se...
Felix Burkhardt, Jon Atle Gulla, Jin Liu, Christia...
COMAD
2009
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TRANS: Schema-Aware Mapping of OWL Ontologies into Relational Databases
An ontology is an explicit specification of shared conceptualization. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies, a...
Saurabh Kejriwal, N. S. Narayanaswamy
DILS
2010
Springer
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Discovering Evolving Regions in Life Science Ontologies
Ontologies are heavily used in life sciences and evolve continuously to incorporate new or changed insights. Often ontology changes affect only specific parts (regions) of ontologi...
Michael Hartung, Anika Gross, Toralf Kirsten, Erha...
BIS
2009
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Organisational Ontology Framework for Semantic Business Process Management
The field of Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) has refuelled interest in using ontologies for the representation of the static and dynamic aspects of an enterprise and va...
Agata Filipowska, Martin Hepp, Monika Kaczmarek, I...
APCCM
2010
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Ontology consolidation in bioinformatics
Ontologies enjoy increasing popularity among bioinformatics researchers who seek assistance in coping with the rapid upgrowth of biological data to be handled and related informat...
Sven Hartmann, Henning Köhler, Jing Wang
ASWC
2009
Springer
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Semantic Rules on Drug Discovery Data
Aggregating and presenting a wide variety of information pertinent to the biological and pharmacological effects of chemical compounds will be a critical part of 21st century drug ...
Sashikiran Challa, David J. Wild, Ying Ding, Qian ...
SWAP
2007
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Some Experiments on the Usage of a Deductive Database for RDFS Querying and Reasoning
Abstract. Ontologies are pervading many areas of knowledge representation and management. To date, most research efforts have been spent on the development of sufficiently express...
Giovambattista Ianni, Alessandra Martello, Claudio...
AAAI
1990
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Shifting Ontological Perspectives in Reasoning About Physical Systems
Commitment to an ontological perspective is a primary aspect of reasoning about the physical world. For complex analytic tasks, the ability to switch between different ontologies ...
Zheng-Yang Liu, Arthur M. Farley