Abstract. One of the most difficult obstacles Web Services have to overcome in the attempt to exploit the true potential of the World Wide Web is heterogeneity. Caused by the natur...
The paper addresses the problem of reasoning with multiple ontologies interrelated with semantic mappings. This problem is becoming more and more relevant due to the necessity of b...
The Semantic Web is a rapidly growing research area aiming at the exchange of semantic information over the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web is built on top of RDF, an XML-based ex...
The Semantic Web is an endeavour aiming at enhancing Web data with meta-data and data processing, as well as processing methods specifying the “meaning” of such data and allowi...
A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...