Current trends like globalization and virtual enterprises result in an increasing need for on-the-fly integration of distributed applications grown over the past decades and origin...
Richard Mordinyi, Thomas Moser, Martin Murth, eva ...
Background: Biomedical ontologies are being widely used to annotate biological data in a computer-accessible, consistent and well-defined manner. However, due to their size and co...
Catherine Beauheim, Farrell Wymore, Michael Nitzbe...
Data integration is the process that gives users access to multiple data sources though queries against a global schema. Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as the most imp...
Ladjel Bellatreche, Guy Pierra, Dung Nguyen Xuan, ...
Traditional object-oriented programming languages can be difficult to use when working with ontologies, leading to the creation of domain-specific languages designed specifically...
Vangelis Vassiliadis, Jan Wielemaker, Chris Mungal...
Efficient query answering over ontologies is one of the most useful and important services to support Semantic Web applications. Approximation has been identified as a potential...