Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rules use non...
Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sha...
A key argument for modeling knowledge in ontologies is the easy re-use and re-engineering of the knowledge. However, beside consistency checking, current ontology engineering tools...
New mobile computing technologies and the increasing use of portable devices have pushed the development of the so-called context-aware applications. This new class of applications...
The structure of possible text understanding system is discussed. To store concepts and knowledge system uses multilayer ontology based on pragmatic memory model. The way of knowle...