Abstract. Approximation has been identified as a potential way of reducing the complexity of logical reasoning. Here we explore approximation for speeding up instance retrieval in...
In the semantic web environment, where several independent ontologies are used in order to describe knowledge and data, ontologies have to be aligned by defining mappings among the...
The overall problem addressed in this paper is to improve semantic interoperability in heterogeneous systems. Normally, the semantics of data is carried by ontology (concept model)...
Abstract. We study the extension of context ontologies towards enhanced qualitative spatio-temporal representations and reasoning. Our goal is to model and extract events that are ...
WSML is an ontology language specifically tailored to annotate Web Services, and part of its semantics adheres to the rule-based knowledge representation paradigm of logic program...
Stephan Grimm, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Gá...