Since ancient times, people have devised cognitive artifacts to extend memory and ease information processing. Among them are graphics, which use elements and the spatial relations...
This paper proposes lexical annotation as an effective method to solve the ambiguity problems that affect ontology matchers. Lexical annotation associates to each ontology elemen...
To enhance UDDI query capability, typically based on taxonomic classification, semantic matching is assuming a key role. Even if we recognize the great importance of semantics in ...
Domain specific ontologies are heavily used in many applications. For instance, these form the bases on which similarity/dissimilarity between keywords are extracted for various k...
The development of more and more complex distributed applications over large networks of computers has raised the problem of semantic interoperability across applications based on ...
Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini,...