Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However, most of the existing methods for constructing o...
This paper presents an innovative approach that deals with two specific problems encountered in the E-Government domain. The first problem is the cultural gap between laws and reg...
Davide Brugali, Giuseppe Psaila, Franco Guidi-Pola...
We discuss an ontological framework for approximation, i.e., to approximation of concepts and vague dependencies specified in a given ontology. The presented approach is based on ...
Fuzzy Description Logics (fuzzy DLs) have been proposed as a language to describe structured knowledge with vague concepts. In [23], a solution based on Mixed Integer Linear Progr...
: Natural language requests involving vague spatial concepts are not easily communicated to a GIS because the meaning of spatial concepts depends largely on the contexts (such as t...