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...
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...
Knowledge representation formalisms used on the Semantic Web adhere to a strict open world assumption. Therefore, nonmonotonic reasoning techniques are often viewed with scepticism...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...