As the sheer volume of new knowledge increases, there is a need to find effective ways to convey and correlate emerging knowledge in machine-readable form. The success of the Seman...
This paper examines the concepts biological function (BF) and functioning as they are used in recent work on formal ontology and its applications in the biomedical domain. My purpo...
Abstract. The deployment of KR formalisms to the Web has created the need for formalisms that combine heterogeneous knowledge bases. Nonmonotonic dl-programs provide a loose integr...
Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...