Abstract. Ontology is a promising tool to model and reason about context information in pervasive computing environment. However, ontology does not support representation and reaso...
Abstract. We present a novel approach to representing uncertain information in ontologies based on design patterns. We provide a brief description of our approach, present its use ...
Abstract. State of the art formalisms for distributed ontology integration provide ways to express semantic relations between concepts belonging to different ontologies. However, t...
The problem of inconsistency handling in ontologies has recently been attracting a lot of attention. When inconsistency occurs in an ontology, there are mainly two ways to deal wit...
We propose a set of metrics for measuring the semantic implications of changes during ontology evolution. Our metrics focus on the changes of classes and associated axioms or annot...