We introduce in this paper correspondence patterns as a tool to design ontology alignments. Based on existing research on patterns in the fields of software and ontology engineeri...
: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...
Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sha...
Gaia is a well-known Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology. The emerging Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm encourages software modelers to automate the trans...