The Semantic Web will allow software agents to understand and reason about data provided by Web applications. Unfortunately, formal ontologies, needed to express data semantics, ar...
Matthias Ferdinand, Christian Zirpins, David Trast...
Abstract. Justifications -- that is, minimal entailing subsets of an ontology -- are currently the dominant form of explanation provided by ontology engineering environments, espec...
Information systems often require combining datasets available in different formats, and geographical information systems are no exception. While semantic technologies have been u...
Abstract. A nearest neighbor search procedure is presented, for retrieving resources in knowledge bases expressed in OWL. The procedure exploits a semidistance for annotated resour...
Abstract. Design patterns are widely-used software engineering abstractions which define guidelines for modeling common application scenarios. Ontology design patterns are the ext...