: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...
In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital "O"), and as a domain-independe...
Relational database systems have been the dominating technology to manage and analyze large data warehouses. Moreover, the ER model, the standard in database design, has a close r...
Carlos Ordonez, Il-Yeol Song, Carlos Garcia-Alvara...
Second Life is an online virtual world that is gaining popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. However, the number of...