Distributed Description Logics (DDL) enable reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping, called bridge rules. Bridge rules map concepts of a s...
Knowledge artifacts that have been labeled as ontologies have many different qualities and intended outcomes. This is particularly true of bio-ontologies where high demand has led...
Ontology matching, aiming to obtain semantic correspondences between two ontologies, has played a key role in data exchange, data integration and metadata management. Among numero...
Abstract. Design patterns are widely-used software engineering abstractions which define guidelines for modeling common application scenarios. Ontology design patterns are the ext...
In the paper we present a methodology for the semiautomated extraction of ontological knowledge from XML data sources in a given domain. We consider an interconnection scenario ov...
Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis, Sabrina De...