Abstract Ontology alignment is an important task for information integration systems that can make different resources, described by various and heterogeneous ontologies, interoper...
Few ontologies in the ecological domain exist, but their development can take advantage of gained experience in other domains and from existing modeling practices in ecology. Taxon...
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...
For the development of practical semantic applications, ontologies are commonly used with rule extensions. Prominent examples of semantic applications are Semantic Wikis, Semantic...
Ontologies have been shown to be beneficial for representing domain knowledge, and are quickly becoming the backbone of the Semantic Web. The need for ontology ranking techniques ...