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ASWC
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation of Semantics and Expressivity
With the growing interest in modular ontology languages to address the need for collaborative development, integration, and use of ontologies on the Web, there is an urgent need fo...
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar
SCIE
1997
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Semantic Matching: Formal Ontological Distinctions for Information Organization, Extraction, and Integration
Abstract. The task of information extraction can be seen as a problem of semantic matching between a user-defined template and a piece of information written in natural language. T...
Nicola Guarino
WSPI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
A Formal Theory of Conceptual Modeling Universals
Conceptual Modeling is a discipline of great relevance to several areas in Computer Science. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL)...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Marten van Sinde...
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Data Modelling versus Ontology Engineering
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...
Peter Spyns, Robert Meersman, Mustafa Jarrar
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DALT
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Social Approach to Communication in Multiagent Systems
Abstract. This paper aims at defining the semantics of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) in terms of changes in the social relationships between agents, represented in terms of...
Marco Colombetti, Nicoletta Fornara, Mario Verdicc...