This paper describes the initial stages of building an ontology of bioinformatics and molecular biology. The conceptualisation is encoded using the Ontology Inference Layer (OIL),...
Robert Stevens, Carole A. Goble, Ian Horrocks, Sea...
Describing relational data sources (i.e. databases) by means of ontologies constitutes the foundation of most of the semantic based approaches to data access and integration. In sp...
Abstract. Ontology reasoning is an indispensable step to fully exploit the implicit semantics of Semantic Web data. The inherent distribution characteristic of the Semantic Web and...
Given the rapid rise of model-driven software development methodologies, it is highly desirable that tools be developed to support the use of design patterns in this context. This...
Hong Zhu, Ian Bayley, Lijun Shan, Richard Amphlett
In the traditional data exchange setting, source instances are restricted to be complete in the sense that every fact is either true or false in these instances. Although natural ...