The Semantic Web vision aims to integrate and convert the vast amount of information available on the Internet into a machine-understandable network. The objective is to promote kn...
In this paper, when we use the term ontology, we are primarily referring to linked data in the form of RDF(S). The problem of ontology mapping has attracted considerable attention...
The standardization of the second generation Web Ontology Language, OWL, leaves a crucial issue for Web-based ontologies unsatisfactorily resolved: how to represent and reason with...
In open heterogeneous multi-agent systems, communication is hampered by lack of common ontologies. Ontologies may differ in naming conventions, granularity and scope. In such an en...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dig...
More and more integration systems use ontologies to solve the problem of semantic heterogeneities between autonomous databases. To automate the integration process, a number of the...