The application of upper ontologies has been repeatedly advocated for supporting interoperability between domain ontologies in order to facilitate shared data use both within and a...
In software engineering, the use of models and metamodeling approaches (e.g., MDA with MOF/UML) for purposes such as software design or software validation is an established pract...
Fernando Silva Parreiras, Steffen Staab, Andreas W...
The objective of the Semiotic-based Ontology Evaluation Tool (S-OntoEval) is to evaluate and propose improvements to a given ontological model. The evaluation aims at assessing th...
Renata Dividino, Massimo Romanelli, Daniel Sonntag
This work introduces a formal framework for the social acquisition of ontologies which are constructed dynamically from overhearing the possibly conflicting symbolic interaction o...
in ontology is quite abstract and often based on toy-examples to the point that the gap between the work of theoreticians and the needs of real applications is too wide to be cross...