A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...
Abstract. The content of most Web pages is dynamically derived from an underlying relational database. Thus, the success of the Semantic Web hinges on enabling access to relational...
Syed Hamid Tirmizi, Juan Sequeda, Daniel P. Mirank...
Abstract. Enterprise delegates Agents’ Negotiation is a simpler task if the enterprises involved in the transaction have homogeneous representation structures as well as the same...
Abstract. Creating a coherent set of ontologies to support a collaborative design process amongst different firms which develop mechatronic products is a challenge due to the seman...
Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However, most of the existing methods for constructing o...