Abstract—Vocabulary alignment is a main challenge in distributed access control as peers should understand each other’s policies unambiguously. Ontologies enable mutual underst...
Daniel Trivellato, Fred Spiessens, Nicola Zannone,...
Abstract. In traditional software systems, significant attention is devoted to keeping modules well separated and coherent with respect to functionality, thus ensuring that changes...
Alexander Maedche, Boris Motik, Ljiljana Stojanovi...
This paper presents the development of a set of ontologies for use in messaging systems within military and emergency first responder command and control applications. These ontolo...
Duc N. Nguyen, Joseph B. Kopena, Boon Thau Loo, Wi...
Existing efforts on ontology mapping, alignment and merging vary from methodological and theoretical frameworks, to methods and tools that support the semi-automatic coordination o...
Konstantinos Kotis, George A. Vouros, Kostas Sterg...
In this paper, we describe the concept of ontological design. We show how ontologies can be used as cognitive maps of complex, ill-structured, plastic problems. They can be used t...