To support the reuse and combination of ontologies in Semantic Web applications, it is often necessary to obtain smaller ontologies from existing larger ontologies. In particular, ...
Zhe Wang, Kewen Wang, Rodney W. Topor, Jeff Z. Pan
The paper addresses the problem of reasoning with multiple ontologies interrelated with semantic mappings. This problem is becoming more and more relevant due to the necessity of b...
A major issue in the study of semantic Web services concerns the matching problem of Web services. Various techniques for this problem have been proposed. Typical ones include FSM ...
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...
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...