Abstract Ontology alignment is an important task for information integration systems that can make different resources, described by various and heterogeneous ontologies, interoper...
—In this paper, we present a new approach for service discovery combining semantic web and peer-to-peer techniques. A reference ontology is used to describe and discover services...
Ontology matching, aiming to obtain semantic correspondences between two ontologies, has played a key role in data exchange, data integration and metadata management. Among numero...
In this paper, we present the AgreementMaker, an ontology alignment tool that incorporates the Descendants Similarity Inheritance (DSI) method. This method uses the structure of th...
A histogram-based method for the interpretation of three-dimensional (3D) point clouds is introduced, where point clouds represent the surface of a scene of multiple objects and ba...