We address the problem of reasoning with instances of heterogeneously formalized ontologies. Given a set of semantic mappings, reconciling conceptual and instance level heterogenei...
Description Logics form a family of formalisms closely related to semantic networks but with the distinguishing characteristic that the semantics of the concept description langua...
Several proposals have been put forward to support distributed agent cooperation in the Semantic Web, by allowing concepts and roles in one ontology be reused in another ontology. ...
Yuting Zhao, Kewen Wang, Rodney W. Topor, Jeff Z. ...
The semantic web aims at enabling the web to understand and answer the requests from people and machines. It relies on several standards for representing and reasoning about web c...
In some application domains as composite software, ranging from search engines, to more general applications, like cooperative and distributed applications or e-business and e-comm...