In this paper we introduce a new view on roles in Object Oriented programming languages, based on an ontological analysis of roles. A role is always associated with an object inst...
Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van d...
Seamless integration of digital parts libraries or electronic parts catalogs for e-procurement is impeded by semantic heterogeneity. The utilization of ontologies as metadata desc...
The definition of new concepts or roles for which extensional knowledge become available can turn out to be necessary to make a DL ontology evolve. In this paper we reformulate thi...
Abstract. This paper presents a decidable fragment for combining ontologies and rules in order-sorted logic programming. We describe ordersorted logic programming with sort, predic...
The interpretation of a multiple-domain text corpus as a single ontology leads to misconceptions. This is because some concepts may be syntactically equal; though, they are semant...