Abstract. The increased availability of biological databases containing representations of complex objects permits access to vast amounts of data. In spite of the recent renewed in...
Abstract. An ontology matching method (or a matcher) aims at matching every entity (or concept) in one ontology to the most suitable entity (or entities) in another ontology. Usual...
The paper presents an unified Description Logic (DL) model for databases. Describing database models using DLs is a fundamental problem in many areas because it turns databases to...
The vision of the Semantic Web is to give data on the web a welldefined meaning by representing it in RDF and linking it to commonly accepted ontologies. Most formatted data today...
Designing and refining ontologies becomes a tedious task, once the boundary to real-world-size knowledge bases has been crossed. Hence semi-automatic methods supporting those task...