In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...
Attempto Controlled English (ACE) is a controlled natural language, i.e. a precisely defined subset of English that can automatically and unambiguously be translated into first-ord...
Model-driven engineering is at the forefront among recent attempts to information systems development. Models are gradually refined from domain specific descriptions to more concre...
Christian Flender, Thomas Hettel, Michael Lawley, ...
General-purpose ontologies (e.g. WordNet) are convenient, but they are not always scientifically valid. We draw on techniques from semantic class learning to improve the scientific...
In this paper, we examine the special requirements of lifecycle management for entities in the context of an entity management system for the semantic web. We study the requirement...