We introduce in this paper correspondence patterns as a tool to design ontology alignments. Based on existing research on patterns in the fields of software and ontology engineeri...
: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...
Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sha...
To ensure the re-use of domain ontologies the usual approach relies on a pivot language, e.g., Kif, intoandfromwhich the domainontologyis translated. This requires several distinc...
Abstract. A workflow-driven ontology is an ontology that encodes disciplinespecific knowledge in the form of concepts and relationships and that facilitates the composition of serv...
Ann Q. Gates, G. Randy Keller, Leonardo Salayandia...