Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...
More and more integration systems use ontologies to solve the problem of semantic heterogeneities between autonomous databases. To automate the integration process, a number of the...
Abstract. In traditional software systems, significant attention is devoted to keeping modules well separated and coherent with respect to functionality, thus ensuring that changes...
Alexander Maedche, Boris Motik, Ljiljana Stojanovi...
In this paper, we consider existing approaches to ontology definition and validation. Popular techniques include the use of domain experts or reliance on formal logic. We consider...
With the increasing use of ontologies in Semantic Web and enterprise knowledge management, it is critical to develop scalable and efficient ontology management systems. In this pap...
Jian Zhou, Li Ma, Qiaoling Liu, Lei Zhang, Yong Yu...