Ontologies represent a method of formally expressing a shared understanding of information, and have been seen by many authors as a prerequisite for the "Semantic web". ...
Ontologies are heavily used in life sciences and evolve continuously to incorporate new or changed insights. Often ontology changes affect only specific parts (regions) of ontologi...
Michael Hartung, Anika Gross, Toralf Kirsten, Erha...
Abstract. The increasing awareness of the benefits of ontologies for information processing has lead to the creation of a number of large ontologies about real world domains. The ...
The role of ontologies in knowledge base systems is gradually increasing. Along with the growth of Internet based applications and ecommerce, the need for easy interoperability bet...
The growing use of ontologies in applications creates the need for an infrastructure that allows developers to more easily combine different software modules like ontology stores,...
Raphael Volz, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab, Boris ...