Abstract. A nearest neighbor search procedure is presented, for retrieving resources in knowledge bases expressed in OWL. The procedure exploits a semidistance for annotated resour...
Abstract. Design patterns are widely-used software engineering abstractions which define guidelines for modeling common application scenarios. Ontology design patterns are the ext...
In the last years, there has been an increasing interest in the performance of reasoning on the Semantic Web in presence of large ABoxes. Traditional reasoners make heavily use of ...
The framework for automatic mediation of two process models composed of semantically annotated web services is presented. Process mediation is hard because of many possible mismat...
The bio-ontology community falls into two camps: first we have biology domain experts, who actually hold the knowledge we wish to capture in ontologies; second, we have ontology s...