The growing interest in ontologies is concomitant with the increasing use of agent systems in user environment. Ontologies have established themselves as schemas for encoding know...
This paper describes why and how an ontology facilitates the sharing and trading of knowledge. It intoduces the underlying concept of a knowledge market place and how an ontology ...
A vertically integrated market consists of potentially competing companies who supply each other with products and services. Information technology can be employed to improve the b...
Aligning ontologies is a crucial and tedious task. Matching algorithms and tools provide support to facilitate the task of the user in defining correspondences between ontologies ...