Abstract. A variety of disciplines and research areas have separately studied the notions of action, agents and agency, but no integrated and well-developed formal ontology for the...
Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. Unlike data models, the fundamental asset of ontologies is the...
BioMediator is a data integration system that provides a common interface to multiple Internet-accessible databases containing information about genetics and molecular biology. Ont...
Abstract. Ontologies are heavily developed and used in life sciences and undergo continuous changes. However, the evolution of life science ontologies and references to them (e.g.,...
Formal principles governing best practices in classification and definition have for too long been neglected in the construction of biomedical ontologies, in ways which have import...