Modularity is a key requirement for collaborative ontology engineering and for distributed ontology reuse on the Web. Modern ontology languages, such as OWL, are logic-based, and ...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...
Design patterns document good design solutions to a recurring problem in a particular context. They are typically modeled using UML. In practice, however, pattern-related informat...
Semantic Web technologies offer the possibility of increased accuracy and completeness in search and retrieval operations. In recent years, curators of data resources have begun f...
Kevin L. Garwood, Phillip W. Lord, Helen Parkinson...
We define an inference system to capture explanations based on causal statements, using an ontology in the form of an IS-A hierarchy. We first introduce a simple logical language...
Philippe Besnard, Marie-Odile Cordier, Yves Moinar...
The number of web-based information systems has been increasing since Internet became the global open network accessible for all. The recent Semantic Web that provides supplementa...
Seksun Suwanmanee, Djamal Benslimane, Philippe Thi...