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ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies
Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the problem of repairing unsatisfiable concepts in an OWL ontology in detail, keeping in mind the user perspective as much as possible. We f...
Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, Berna...
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Managing Information Quality in e-Science Using Semantic Web Technology
Abstract. We outline a framework for managing information quality (IQ) in eScience, using ontologies, semantic annotation of resources, and data bindings. Scientists define the qua...
Alun D. Preece, Binling Jin, Edoardo Pignotti, Pao...
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Rules with Contextually Scoped Negation
Knowledge representation formalisms used on the Semantic Web adhere to a strict open world assumption. Therefore, nonmonotonic reasoning techniques are often viewed with scepticism...
Axel Polleres, Cristina Feier, Andreas Harth
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Resolving Inconsistencies in Evolving Ontologies
Abstract. Changing a consistent ontology may turn the ontology into an inconsistent state. It is the task of an approach supporting ontology evolution to ensure an ontology evolves...
Peter Plessers, Olga De Troyer
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An Environment for Semi-automatic Annotation of Ontological Knowledge with Linguistic Content
Both the multilingual aspects which characterize the (Semantic) Web and the demand for more easy-to-share forms of knowledge representation, being equally accessible by humans and ...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Web Service Modeling Language WSML: An Overview
The Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) is a language for the specification of different aspects of Semantic Web Services. It provides a formal language for the Web Service Modeli...
Jos de Bruijn, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Diete...
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Metamodel and UML Profile for Rule-Extended OWL DL Ontologies
In this paper we present a MOF compliant metamodel and UML profile for the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) that integrates with our previous work on a metamodel and UML profile f...
Saartje Brockmans, Peter Haase, Pascal Hitzler, Ru...
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using Semantics to Enhance the Blogging Experience
Blogging, as a subset of the web as a whole, can benefit greatly from the addition of semantic metadata. The result -- which we will call Semantic Blogging -- provides improved cap...
Knud Möller, Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Semantic Web Policies - A Discussion of Requirements and Research Issues
Policies are pervasive in web applications. They play crucial roles in enhancing security, privacy and usability of distributed services. There has been extensive research in the a...
Piero A. Bonatti, Claudiu Duma, Norbert E. Fuchs, ...
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Extracting Instances of Relations from Web Documents Using Redundancy
Abstract. In this document we describe our approach to a specific subtask of ontology population, the extraction of instances of relations. We present a generic approach with which...
Viktor de Boer, Maarten van Someren, Bob J. Wielin...