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...
Ontologies are set to play a key r^ole in the "Semantic Web" by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms that can be used in descriptions of web resource...
The Semantic Web (SW) is viewed as the next generation of the Web that enables intelligent software agents to process and aggregate data autonomously. Ontology languages provide ba...
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been developed and standardised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is one of the key technologies underpinning the Semantic Web, but its...
Abstract. We discuss language architecture for the Semantic Web, and in particular different proposals for extending this architecture with a rules component. We argue that an arch...
Ian Horrocks, Bijan Parsia, Peter F. Patel-Schneid...