Semantic web applications based on the web ontology language (OWL) often require the use of numbers in class descriptions for expressing cardinality restrictions on properties or ...
Abstract: The emerging penetration of IT architectures with XML leads to increasing XML data volumes. Available tools often fail in realizing scalable XML processing for large XML ...
Context-awareness is a highly desired feature across several application domains. Semantic Web Services (SWS) technologies address context-adaptation by enabling the automatic disc...
Background: The engineering of ontologies, especially with a view to a text-mining use, is still a new research field. There does not yet exist a well-defined theory and technolog...
Several applications require reasoning over autonomously developed ontologies. Initially conceived to explicit the semantics of a certain domain, these ontologies become a powerfu...