Abstract. This paper presents a mathematization of the philosophical doctrine of judgments as an extension of the mathematization of the philosophical doctrine of concepts develope...
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. This paper introduces a formalization of a set of spatial semantic integrity constraints on an extended-relational database model. The formalization extends traditional n...
Abstract. Most approaches to application integration require an unambiguous exchange of events. Ontologies can be used to annotate the events exchanged and thus ensure a common und...
Abstract. Ontologies are used for sharing information and are often collaboratively developed. They are adapted for different applications and domains resulting in multiple version...