Ontology management and maintenance are considered cornerstone issues in current Semantic Web applications in which semantic integration and ontological reasoning play a fundament...
Giorgos Flouris, Zhisheng Huang, Jeff Z. Pan, Dimi...
Abstract. Recently, there have been a number of proposals for languages for expressing web service constraints and capabilities, with WSPolicy and WSPL leading the way. The propose...
Vladimir Kolovski, Bijan Parsia, Yarden Katz, Jame...
Abstract. A nearest neighbor search procedure is presented, for retrieving resources in knowledge bases expressed in OWL. The procedure exploits a semidistance for annotated resour...
Theories of rational belief revision recently proposed by Alchourron, Gardenfors, Makinson, and Nebel illuminate many important issues but impose unnecessarily strong standards fo...
In this paper, we describe the concept of ontological design. We show how ontologies can be used as cognitive maps of complex, ill-structured, plastic problems. They can be used t...