Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However, most of the existing methods for constructing o...
This paper proposes a definition, scope and topics of construction informatics--a discipline also known as `construction IT' or `communication and information technologies in...
Comprehensive semantic descriptions of Web services are essential to exploit them in their full potential, that is, discovering them dynamically, and enabling automated service ne...
This paper presents an Ontology-based approach for dealing with guidelines concerning the usability and the accessibility of Web applications. We report an ontology which provides ...
We define an inference system to capture explanations based on causal statements, using an ontology in the form of an IS-A hierarchy. We first introduce a simple logical language...
Philippe Besnard, Marie-Odile Cordier, Yves Moinar...