Abstract. Ontologies constitute an approach for knowledge representation that can be shared establishing a shared vocabulary for different applications and are also the backbone of...
We present a conceptual framework for validating reusable behavioral models. The setting for this work is a modern product development environment in which design is performed by ...
Software systems embed in them knowledge about the domain in which they operate. However, this knowledge is “latent”. Making such knowledge accessible could be of great value ...
A description-logic based knowledge representation system is more than an inference engine for a particular description logic. A knowledge representation system must provide a num...
This paper presents the Kuaba Ontology, a knowledge representation model for Design Rationale described in an ontology definition language. The representation of this model in a sp...
Adriana Pereira de Medeiros, Daniel Schwabe, Bruno...