We present the syntax and semantics of a modular ontology language SHOIQP to support context-specific reuse of knowledge from multiple ontologies. A SHOIQP ontology consists of m...
The advance of the Web has significantly and rapidly changed the way of information organization, sharing and distribution. The next generation of the web, the semantic web, seeks...
Ontology matching, aiming to obtain semantic correspondences between two ontologies, has played a key role in data exchange, data integration and metadata management. Among numero...
In order for ontologies to be broadly useful to the scientific community, they need to capture knowledge and expertise of multiple experts and research groups. Consequently, the ...
Jie Bao, Zhiliang Hu, Doina Caragea, James Reecy, ...
Keywords, restricted vocabularies (RVs), thesauri, and catalogues are introduced leading up to discussion of the need for full ontologies to describe the full logical and relation...