- It is no secret that the multidisciplinary sphere of information systems has borrowed the term `ontology' from philosophy, and reinterpreted it to be more suitable for infor...
We present a novel reasoning procedure for Horn SHIQ ontologies--SHIQ ontologies that can be translated to the Horn fragment of first-order logic. In contrast to traditional reaso...
Abstract. Ontologies are today used to annotate web data with machine processable semantics and for domain modeling. As the use of ontologies increases and the ontologies themselve...
The field of Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) has refuelled interest in using ontologies for the representation of the static and dynamic aspects of an enterprise and va...
Agata Filipowska, Martin Hepp, Monika Kaczmarek, I...
We explore the meanings of the terms as "structure," "behavior," and, especially, "function" in engineering practice. Computers provide great help in...