Ontologies are becoming an important mechanism to build information systems. Nevertheless, there is still no systematic approach to support the design of such systems using tools ...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, Jos...
There are different strategies to integrate software systems: integration on the data layer, on the business logic layer, and on the user interface layer. The latter area, recent...
— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
An ontology alignment is the expression of relations between different ontologies. In order to view alignments independently from the language expressing ontologies and from the te...
There are ontology domain concepts that can be represented according to multiple alternative classification criteria. Current ontology modeling guidelines do not explicitly conside...