— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
Abstract. Design patterns are widely-used software engineering abstractions which define guidelines for modeling common application scenarios. Ontology design patterns are the ext...
Using language technology for text analysis and light-weight ontologies as a content-mediating level, we acquire indexing patterns from vast amounts of indexing data for Englishla...
Managing time-stamped data is essential to clinical research activities and often requires the use of considerable domain knowledge, which is difficult to support within database ...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi D. Shankar, David B. Parr...
Ontologies are becoming an important mechanism to build information systems. Nevertheless, there is still no systematic approach to support the design of such systems using tools ...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, Jos...