Knowledge portals aim at facilitating the location, sharing and dissemination of information by sitting ontologies at the core of the system. For heterogeneous environments where c...
Abstract. Web services have become the predominant paradigm for the development of distributed software systems. Web services provide the means to modularize software in a way that...
Abstract. Design patterns are widely-used software engineering abstractions which define guidelines for modeling common application scenarios. Ontology design patterns are the ext...
Biomedical ontologies provide a commonly accepted scheme for the characterization of biological concepts that enable knowledge sharing and integration. Updating and maintaining an ...
: Creation of rich, ontology-based metadata is one of the major challenges in developing the Semantic Web. Emerging applications utilizing semantic web techniques, such as semantic...