Ontologies in a web setting, particularly those used in a group context (such as a virtual community), need to be flexible and open to changes that reflect the evolution of knowle...
Ontologies, and in particular upper ontologies, are foundational to the establishment of the Semantic Web. Upper ontologies are used as equivalence formalisms between domain speci...
Winston Anderson, Laurette Pretorius, Albert E. Ko...
Inferences about speech acts are often conditional, nonmonotonic, and involve the issue of time. Most agent communication languages, however, ignore these issues, due to the difï¬...
Abstract. Contextual ontologies are ontologies that characterize a concept by a set of properties that vary according to context. Contextual ontologies are now crucial for users wh...
Djamal Benslimane, Ahmed Arara, Gilles Falquet, Za...
Electronic Brokering, is a good candidate for taking up Semantic Web technology. In this paper we study the brokering and matchmaking problem that is, how a requester’s requirem...
Grigoris Antoniou, Thomas Skylogiannis, Antonis Bi...