This article presents a general framework for integrating reasoning about object structure and concept taxonomies. The structural relations in the domain of objects discussed are ...
The textual Object Constraint Language (OCL) is an official part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). A new concept in the recently adopted OCL version 2.0 is the notion of O...
: A unified controlled medical vocabulary has been cited as one of the grand challenges facing Medical Informatics. We would restate this challenge as ‘achieving a re-usable and ...
In this paper we examine 1) the scope of geo-ontologies used especially for the purposes of information retrieval on the Web, 2) the core geographical concepts and their mutual re...
An innate characteristic of the development of ontologies is that they are often created by independent groups of expertise, which generates the necessity of merging and aligning o...