The problem of designing suitable conceptual modeling languages for system engineering is far from being solved. In the past years, some works have proposed the use of foundational...
Lightweight ontologies in the form of RDF vocabularies such as SIOC, FOAF, vCard, etc. are increasingly being used and exported by “serious” applications recently. Such vocabul...
Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. Unlike data models, the fundamental asset of ontologies is the...
Although OWL provides a solid basis for many semantic-web applications, it lacks sufficient declarative semantics for instance recognition. This omission prevents OWL from being a ...
In recent years, there has been an explosion of publicly available RDF and OWL web pages. Some of these pages are static text files, while others are dynamically generated from la...