In the context of the Semantic Web or semantic peer to peer systems, many ontologies may exist and be developed independently. Ontology alignments help integrating, mediating or re...
This chapter considers, on the one hand, extensions of Description Logics by features not available in the basic framework, but considered important for using Description Logics a...
An object-oriented software design is often modelled as a collection of UML diagrams. There is an inherent need to preserve the consistency between these diagrams. Moreover, throu...
Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Jocelyn Simmonds, Tom M...
Sophisticated uncertainty representation and reasoning are necessary for the alignment and integration of Web data from different sources. For this purpose the extension of the Des...
Nikos Simou, Theofilos P. Mailis, Giorgos Stoilos,...
Temporal data models have been used to describe how data can evolve in the context of temporal databases. Both the Extended Entity-Relationship (EER) model and the Unified Modelli...
Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryz...