Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precis...
tween documents. They should allow for an abstract representation of data which resembles the way they are actually perceived and used in the real world, thus shortening (with resp...
Semantic interoperability is essential on the Semantic Web to enable different information systems to exchange data. Such interoperability can be achieved by identifying similar in...
Many popular ontology languages are based on (subsets of) first-order predicate logic, with classes represented by unary predicates and properties by binary predicates. Specificall...
This paper presents a three-step approach for interoperabilising heterogeneous semantic resources. Firstly, we construct homogeneous representations of these resources in a pivot ...