Abstract. This paper presents and motivates an extended ontology conceptual model which represents explicitly semantic information about concepts. This model results from explicitl...
Ontology design is a complex and time-consuming process. It is extremely difficult for human experts to discover ontology from given data or texts. This paper presents a semi-autom...
: In recent years, the number of ontologies shared on the Web has increased dramatically, supporting a growing set of applications such as biological knowledge sharing, enhanced se...
A key argument for modeling knowledge in ontologies is the easy re-use and re-engineering of the knowledge. However, beside consistency checking, current ontology engineering tools...
Effect axioms constitute the cornerstone of formal theories of action in AI. They drive standard reasoning tasks, especially prediction. These tasks need not be coupled with actual...