Abstract. In this paper, we show how the web ontology language OWL can be accommodated within the larger framework of the heterogeneous common algebraic specification language HETC...
Semantic interoperability is essential on the Semantic Web to enable different information systems to exchange data. Such interoperability can be achieved by identifying similar in...
Several applications require reasoning over autonomously developed ontologies. Initially conceived to explicit the semantics of a certain domain, these ontologies become a powerfu...
In this paper, we consider the problem of query answering over large multimedia ontologies. Traditional reasoning systems may have problems to deal with large amounts of expressive...
Abstract. A usage scenario of bio-ontologies is hypothesis testing, such as finding relationships or new subconcepts in the data linked to the ontology. Whilst validating the hypot...