Metadata is needed to facilitate data sharing among geospatial information communities. Geographic Metadata Standards are available but tend to be general and complex in nature an...
Ontologies enable explicit expression of collective concepts and support Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions at the semantic level. Ontologies expressed in a standard language, s...
Suzette Stoutenburg, Leo Obrst, Deborah Nichols, P...
This paper describes a type system that is capable of expressing and enforcing immutability constraints. The specific constraint exis that the abstract state of the object to whi...
Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches...
Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires mappings between them. Matching applications generate these mappings. When the matching process utilizes ...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunc...