Abstract. In the Semantic Web information would be retrieved, processed, combined, shared and reused in the maximum automatic way possible. Obviously, such procedures involve a hig...
Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos B. Stamou, Vassilis Tzouv...
In description logics (DLs), concrete domains are used for defining concepts based on concrete qualities of their instances such as the weight, age, duration, and spatial extensio...
The interpretation of medical evidence is normally presented in terms of a controlled, but diversely expressed specialist vocabulary and natural language phrases. Such informally ...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul H. Lewis, Nige...
Modularity is a key requirement for large ontologies in order to achieve re-use, maintainability, and evolution. Mechanisms for ‘normalisation’ to achieve analogous aims are s...
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...