Ontology design is a complex and time-consuming process. It is extremely difficult for human experts to discover ontology from given data or texts. This paper presents a semi-autom...
During the Renaissance there was a growing interest for the use of diagrams within conceptual studies. This paper investigates the historical and philosophical foundation of this r...
Ontologies are entities that evolve over time, therefore it is essential to represent and manage changes to ontologies along with the ontologies themselves. In this paper we propos...
The overall problem addressed in this paper is to improve semantic interoperability in heterogeneous systems. Normally, the semantics of data is carried by ontology (concept model)...
Software measurement is a relatively young discipline. As a consequence, it is not well defined yet, making the terminology used diverse. In order to establish a basic conceptualiz...
Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Ricardo de Almeida Fal...