The paper addresses the problem of reasoning with multiple ontologies interrelated with semantic mappings. This problem is becoming more and more relevant due to the necessity of b...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Ontologies play an important role in the Semantic Web. Currently, several Web ontology languages have been proposed and there has been a substantial effort towards the formalizat...
Started in the beginning of 2001, the Semantic Web is regarded by many as the next generation of the Web. Ontology languages are the building blocks of Semantic Web as they provid...
Jin Song Dong, Yuzhang Feng, Yuan-Fang Li, Jun Sun...
In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital "O"), and as a domain-independe...