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OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
A Meta-ontological Architecture for Foundational Ontologies
Abstract. In this paper we present and discuss a meta-ontological archifor ontologies which centers on abstract core ontologies (ACOs). s the most abstract part of a foundational o...
Heinrich Herre, Frank Loebe
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Measuring the Structural Preservation of Semantic Hierarchy Alignment
We present a method to measure the amount of structural distortion carried by an alignment between two taxonomic cores of ontologies represented as semantic hierarchies. We present...
Cliff Joslyn, Patrick Paulson, Amanda White
AAAI
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Dynamic Ontologies on the Web
We discuss the problems associated with managing ontologies in distributed environments such as the Web. The Web poses unique problems for the use of ontologies because of the rap...
Jeff Heflin, James A. Hendler
ECIS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Actor network theory and after: what's new for IS research?
The basic argument presented in the paper is that actor network theory has often been forced to adopt the ontology of interpretivism and thus suppress its own ontology. Interpreti...
Antonio Cordella, Maha Shaikh
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Reasoning about the dynamics of social behaviour
Formal theories of multi-agent systems require a rich ontology for modelling the dynamics of social behaviour. In this paper a formal analysis of the social behaviour of individua...
Maria Fasli