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EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Hybrid Algorithm for Alignment of Concept Hierarchies
Hierarchical categorization is a powerful and convenient method so that it is commonly used in various areas, such as ontologies. Although each hierarchy is useful, there are probl...
Ryutaro Ichise, Masahiro Hamasaki, Hideaki Takeda
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Managing Patient Record Instances Using DL-Enabled Formal Concept Analysis
Abstract In this paper we describe a general logic-enabled Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) approach to manage patient record instances. In particular, the conceptual model of the dom...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Dupplaw, Paul...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Designing a Procedure for the Acquisition of Probability Constraints for Bayesian Networks
Among the various tasks involved in building a Bayesian network for a real-life application, the task of eliciting all probabilities required is generally considered the most daunt...
Eveline M. Helsper, Linda C. van der Gaag, Floris ...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
On the Foundations of UML as an Ontology Representation Language
There is a growing interest in the use of UML class diagrams as a modeling language to represent domain ontologies. In a series of papers (e.g., [1,2]) we have been using the Gener...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Heinrich Herre
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Graph-Based Acquisition of Expressive Knowledge
Capturing and exploiting knowledge is at the heart of several important problems such as decision making, the semantic web, and intelligent agents. The captured knowledge must be a...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Kenneth S. Murray, John Pacheco...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Generating and Integrating Evidence for Ontology Mappings
For more than a decade, ontologies have been proposed as a means to enable sharing and reuse of knowledge. While originally relatively narrow information landscapes have been in mi...
Ludger van Elst, Malte Kiesel
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Incremental Knowledge Acquisition for Improving Probabilistic Search Algorithms
A new incremental knowledge acquisition approach for the effective development of efficient problem solvers for combinatorial problems based on probabilistic search algorithms is ...
J. P. Bekmann, Achim G. Hoffmann
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Refactoring Methods for Knowledge Bases
The manual development of large knowledge systems is a difficult and error-prone task. In order to facilitate extensions to an existing knowledge base the structural design of the...
Joachim Baumeister, Frank Puppe, Dietmar Seipel
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Knowledge Mediation: A Procedure for the Cooperative Construction of Domain Ontologies
In order to enable knowledge sharing and reuse among software entities, artificial intelligence researchers have proposed to develop ‘ontologies’ as the explicit formal specifi...
Felix-Robinson Aschoff, Franz Schmalhofer, Ludger ...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
ConEditor: Tool to Input and Maintain Constraints
We present a tool which helps domain experts capture and maintain constraints. The tool displays parts of an ontology (as classes, sub-classes and properties) in the form of a tree...
Suraj Ajit, Derek H. Sleeman, David W. Fowler, Dav...