In this paper we propose facilitating ontology development by constant evaluation of steps in the process of ontology development. Existing methodologies for ontology development a...
Abstract--Collaborating agents require either prior agreement on the shared vocabularies that they use for communication, or some means of translating between their private ontolog...
Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. J...
In this paper we present the IDUM system, a successful application of logic programming to e-tourism. IDUM exploits two technologies that are based on the state-of-the-art ASP syst...
Francesco Ricca, Antonella Dimasi, Giovanni Grasso...
The FAST gadget development environment allows users to graphically compose intelligent, i.e., semantically annotated gadgets from predefined building blocks and deploy them on var...
The lack of semantics in Web Services Description Language (WSDL) prevents automatic discovery and hence automatic invocation and composition. In our work, we are interested in ext...
Culture and affect are closely tied domains that have been considered separately in HCI until now. After carefully reviewing research done in each of those domains, a formal ontolo...
Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Susanne...
The semantic integration of manufacturing systems has been impeded by the lack of rigorous ontologies for specific domains of manufacturing processes and resources. In this paper w...
Abstract. The paper presents the preliminary version of Ontobella - a domain ontology of beliefs. The philosophical assumptions of this system are taken from the philosophy of Roma...
Pawel Garbacz, Marek Lechniak, Piotr Kulicki, Robe...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe an approach for ontology comprehension support called model exploration in which models for ontologies are generated and presented interactivel...
Ontology as a knowledge base can provide different reasoning tasks, e.g. to check consistency of the ontology or to check whether a resource is instance of a concept or not. In thi...