Abstract. Several ontology building methodologies have been developed endowed with different characteristics, however there is not yet a clear method to select the most appropriate...
Michela Chimienti, Michele Dassisti, Antonio De Ni...
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and Lycos), ecommerce (such as Amazon and eBay), configura...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Richard Fikes, James Rice, ...
Ontologies are becoming more and more popular as background knowledge for intelligent applications. Up to now, there has been a schism between manually assembled, highly axiomatic...
Abstract. Ontologies can be used for e-business integration, for example by describing existing e-business standards as ontologies. If cooperating parties use different ontologies...
Modularity is a key requirement for large ontologies in order to achieve re-use, maintainability, and evolution. Mechanisms for ‘normalisation’ to achieve analogous aims are s...