Background: Incorporation of ontologies into annotations has enabled 'semantic integration' of complex data, making explicit the knowledge within a certain field. One of...
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 comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and Lycos), ecommerce (such as Amazon and eBay), configura...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Richard Fikes, James Rice, ...
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been developed and standardised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is one of the key technologies underpinning the Semantic Web, but its...