Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...
The Semantic Web emphasizes encoding over modeling. It is built on the premise that ontology engineers can say something useful about the semantics of vocabularies by expressing th...
Ontologies are gaining popularity in many domains as a way of representing, dealing and reasoning with large volumes of information, and they are starting to play a major role in ...
With the emergence of the e-Catalog, there has been an increasingly wide application of commodities query in distributed environment in the field of e-commerce. But e-Catalog is o...
Donglin Chen, Xiaofei Li, Yueling Liang, Jun Zhang
The development of ontologies involves continuous but relatively small modifications. However, existing ontology reasoners do not take advantage of the similarities between differe...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, ...
We propose a novel approach to facilitate the concurrent development of ontologies by different groups of experts. Our approach adapts Concurrent Versioning, a successful paradigm...
Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rules use non...
Background: The Cell Ontology (CL) is an ontology for the representation of in vivo cell types. As biological ontologies such as the CL grow in complexity, they become increasingl...
Terrence F. Meehan, Anna Maria Masci, Amina Abdull...
Background: Linking high-throughput experimental data with biological networks is a key step for understanding complex biological systems. Currently, visualization tools for large...
Ming Jia, Suh-Yeon Choi, Dirk Reiners, Eve Syrkin ...
Advancing the synthesis of Eastern mind science with Western physical science will require a robust and easy-to-traverse bridge between the atypical apprehensions within meditation...