The development of ontologies involves continuous but relatively small modifications. However, existing ontology reasoners do not take advantage of the similarities between differe...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, ...
Traditional object-oriented programming languages can be difficult to use when working with ontologies, leading to the creation of domain-specific languages designed specifically...
Vangelis Vassiliadis, Jan Wielemaker, Chris Mungal...
We develop a formal framework for modular ontologies by analysing four notions of conservative extensions and their applications in refining, re-using, merging, and segmenting ont...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
Abstract. W3C's OWL has gained wide acceptance in the agent community and it has already been used in many agent applications which we think syntactically. By taking advantage...
In spite of the increasing effort spent on building ontologies for the Semantic Web, little attention has been paid to the impact of these ontologies on knowledge-based intelligen...