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SWWS
2008
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Metrics for Evaluating the Semantic Implications of Changes in Evolving Ontologies
We propose a set of metrics for measuring the semantic implications of changes during ontology evolution. Our metrics focus on the changes of classes and associated axioms or annot...
Chuming Chen, Manton M. Matthews
SWWS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A New Approach to Managing the Evolution of OWL Ontologies
Abstract The growing demand for large and complex ontologies present new challenges related to their design, maintenance and evolution. In this paper, we propose an approach to man...
Chuming Chen, Manton M. Matthews
SWWS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Harmony based Adaptive Ontology Mapping Approach
- Ontology mapping seeks to find semantic correspondences between similar elements of different ontologies. Ontology mapping is critical to achieve semantic interoperability in the...
Ming Mao, Yefei Peng, Michael Spring
SWWS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Multi-Modal Health and Activity Monitoring Framework for Elderly People at Home
- Since the population of elderly people grows absolutely and in relation to the overall population in the world, the improvement of the quality of life of elderly people at home i...
Ross Velentzas, Andy Marsh, Christos Biniaris, Jer...
SWAP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Ontological Reasoning and Abductive Logic Programming for Service Discovery and Contracting
Abstract. The Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, and its implementation based on Web Services, have been the object of an intense research and standardization activity. One of...
Federico Chesani, Paola Mello, Marco Montali, Paol...
SWAP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Learning SHIQ+log Rules for Ontology Evolution
The definition of new concepts or roles for which extensional knowledge become available can turn out to be necessary to make a DL ontology evolve. In this paper we reformulate thi...
Francesca A. Lisi, Floriana Esposito
SWAP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Din din! The (Semantic) Turkey is served!
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Noemi Scarpato, Armando Ste...
SWAP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
OWL Change Management Patterns
Ontology evolution is a complex problem. In our work, we focus on issues related to change management, particularly consistency maintenance and we present in this paper, an overvie...
Rim Djedidi, Marie-Aude Aufaure
SWAP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Ontology-based Editor for Metadata Documents
Editing metadata for documents in a large collection is a long and menial task. Many metadata schemas exist, among which, of course, Dublin Core, and they are usually only partiall...
Silvia Duca, Fabio Vitali