A lot of alignment systems providing mappings between the concepts of two ontologies rely on an additional source, called background knowledge, represented most of the time by a th...
We consider the problem of characterisation of sequences of heterogeneous symbolic data that arise from a common underlying temporal pattern. The data, which are subject to impreci...
BioMediator is a data integration system that provides a common interface to multiple Internet-accessible databases containing information about genetics and molecular biology. Ont...
Effective communication in open environments relies on the ability of agents to reach a mutual understanding of the exchanged message by reconciling the vocabulary (ontology) used....
Paul Doran, Terry R. Payne, Valentina A. M. Tamma,...
Multiple distributed and modular ontology representation frameworks have recently appeared. They typically extend Description Logics (DL), with new constructs to represent relation...