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...
Abstract. The definition of a domain ontology is a complex activity that requires two kinds of expertise: a deep knowledge of the domain to be modeled and a good level of familiari...
We propose a novel approach to facilitate the concurrent development of ontologies by different groups of experts. Our approach adapts Concurrent Versioning, a successful paradigm...
Given the proven usefulness of ontologies in many areas, the representation of logical axioms associated to ontological concepts and relations has become an important task in order...
Luis Del Vasto Terrientes, Antonio Moreno, David S...
Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rules use non...