s the development of an abstract description of what there is in the world in an application-independent form. This paper argues that attempts to support information systems intero...
Abstract. We study the problem of evolution for Knowledge Bases (KBs) expressed in Description Logics (DLs) of the DL-Lite family. DL-Lite is at the basis of OWL 2 QL, one of the t...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...
Abstract: This paper presents a method for semi-automatically building tailored application ontologies from a set of data acquisition forms. Such ontologies are intended to facilit...
As computer systems continue to grow in power and access more networked content and services, we believe there will be an increasing need to provide more user-centric systems that...
Large-scale database integration requires a significant cost in developing a global schema and finding mappings between the global and local schemas. Developing the global schema r...