Abstract. Ontologies constitute an approach for knowledge representation that can be shared establishing a shared vocabulary for different applications and are also the backbone of...
This paper describes the development of a framework to build Virtual Communities of Practice in the web. It is part of a larger project named as DWeb (acronym for Dream Web). The p...
Knowledge is of general utility and should be captured thinking in reuse. A key idea underlining knowledge capturing for reuse is to consider that there are two major kinds of know...
Agents are becoming a popular technology for the development of distributed, heterogeneous and always available systems. In those systems, interactions are essential, but semantic ...
During the last three years there has been growing interest and consequently active research on ontology modularization. This paper presents a concrete tool that incorporates an ap...