Knowledge artifacts that have been labeled as ontologies have many different qualities and intended outcomes. This is particularly true of bio-ontologies where high demand has led...
Ontology, an explicit specification of shared conceptualization, has been increasingly used to define formal data semantics and improve data reusability and interoperability in en...
The development of intelligent healthcare support systems always requires a formalization of medical knowledge. Domain ontologies are especially suitable for this purpose but their...
Abstract. We show that the Semantic Web needs a formal semantics for the various kinds of links between ontologies and other documents. We provide a model theoretic semantics that ...
Abstract. The alignment of different ontologies requires the specification, representation and execution of translation rules. The rules need to integrate translations at the lexic...
Fernando Silva Parreiras, Steffen Staab, Simon Sch...