To support the reuse and combination of ontologies in Semantic Web applications, it is often necessary to obtain smaller ontologies from existing larger ontologies. In particular, ...
Zhe Wang, Kewen Wang, Rodney W. Topor, Jeff Z. Pan
After a critical review of the present architecture of SNOMED CT, addressing both logical and ontological issues, we present a roadmap towards an overall improvement of this termi...
Stefan Schulz, Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn, Franz B...
We propose a structured approach to the problem of retrieval of images by content and present a description logic that has been devised for the semantic indexing and retrieval of ...
Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini, Marina M...
Model checking is a formal verification method widely accepted in the web service world because of its capability to reason about service behaviors, at their process-level. It ha...
L. Boaro, E. Glorio, Francesco Pagliarecci, Luca S...
For multimedia interpretation, and in particular for the combined interpretation of information coming from different modalities, a semantically well-founded formalization is requ...