Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
With the increasing use of ontologies in Semantic Web and enterprise knowledge management, it is critical to develop scalable and efficient ontology management systems. In this pap...
Jian Zhou, Li Ma, Qiaoling Liu, Lei Zhang, Yong Yu...
Matching descriptions of user requirements against descriptions of service capabilities is crucial for the discovery of appropriate services for a given task. To improve the precis...
Sven Schade, Arnd Sahlmann, Michael Lutz, Florian ...
Abstract. The call for a "focus on content" in ontology research by Nicola Guarino and Mark Musen in their launching statement of the journal Applied Ontology has quite s...