To achieve inter-enterprise software interoperability, the semantics of interchanged information by using electronic business documents, has to be explicitly modeled. A common appr...
tween documents. They should allow for an abstract representation of data which resembles the way they are actually perceived and used in the real world, thus shortening (with resp...
This paper examines the concepts biological function (BF) and functioning as they are used in recent work on formal ontology and its applications in the biomedical domain. My purpo...
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...
FLOWS is a first-order logic ontology for Web services and a W3C Submission. In this article, we describe some of the motivation behind the development of FLOWS, together with its...