In order to evaluate the performance of ontology matching algorithms it is necessary to confront them with test ontologies and to compare the results. The most prominent criteria ...
Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...
In this paper, we propose a set of tasks that are relevant for the modular reuse of ontologies. In order to formalize these tasks as reasoning problems, we introduce the notions o...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...
The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specif...
Electronic institutions are a formalism to define and analyse protocols among agents with a view to achieving global and individual goals. In this paper we propose a definition of ...