Abstract. Since the seminal book by the Gang of Four, design patterns have proven an important tool in software development. Over time, more and more patterns have been discovered ...
We study the problem of deciding whether two ontologies are inseparable w.r.t. a signature Σ, i.e., whether they have the same consequences in the signature Σ. A special case is...
Ontology is a comprehensive knowledge model which enables the developer to practice a “higher” level of reuse of knowledge. Typically, different modeling languages are employe...
There is a critical need to design and develop tools tract away the fundamental complexity of XML based Web services specifications and toolkits, and provide an elegant, intuitive...
Chaitali Gupta, Rajdeep Bhowmik, Michael R. Head, ...
—With the increasing development of real applications using Semantic Web Technologies, it is necessary to provide scalable and efficient ontology querying and reasoning systems....