In spite of the increasing effort spent on building ontologies for the Semantic Web, little attention has been paid to the impact of these ontologies on knowledge-based intelligen...
Modern semantic technology is one of the necessary supports for the infrastructure of next generation information systems. In particular, large international organizations, which u...
We develop a formal framework for modular ontologies by analysing four notions of conservative extensions and their applications in refining, re-using, merging, and segmenting ont...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...