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KCAP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
FONTE: factorizing ONTology engineering complexity
Because it is difficult to engineer a complex ontology with time, we here consider a method that allows for factorizing the complexity of the engineering process, FONTE (Factoriz...
Jorge Santos, Steffen Staab
IEEEICCI
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Conceptual Framework for Interactive Ontology Building
Abstract— An ontology is a formal language adequately representing the knowledge used for reasoning in a specific environment. When contradictions arise and make ontologies inad...
Jean Sallantin, Jacques Divol, Patrice Duroux
COOPIS
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
OntoManager - A System for the Usage-Based Ontology Management
In this paper, we propose an approach for guiding ontology managers through the modification of an ontology with respect to users' needs. It is based on the analysis of end-u...
Ljiljana Stojanovic, Nenad Stojanovic, Jorge Gonza...
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
An Ontology for Scientific Information in a Grid Environment: the Earth System Grid
In the emerging world of Grid Computing, shared computational, data, other distributed resources are becoming available to enable scientific advancement through collaborative rese...
Line Pouchard, Luca Cinquini, Bob Drach, Don Middl...
CISIS
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
iweightings: Enhancing Structure-based Ontology Alignment by Enriching Models with Importance Weighting
—Structural ontology matching methods analyze mainly two factors: entity labels and relationships among entities. We propose to additionally consider an importance and relevance ...
Alexandra Mazak, Bernhard Schandl, Monika Lanzenbe...
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Modelling Models of Robot Navigation Using Formal Spatial Ontology
Abstract. In this paper we apply a formal ontological framework in order to deconstruct two prominent approaches to navigation from cognitive robotics, the Spatial Semantic Hierarc...
John A. Bateman, Scott Farrar
SGAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Managing ontology versions with a distributed blackboard architecture
Ontology versioning deals with the management of ontology changes, including the evaluation of the consequences arising from these changes. We describe a distributed, “pluggable...
Ernesto Compatangelo, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Bruce ...
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
HCOME: A Tool-Supported Methodology for Engineering Living Ontologies
Abstract. The fast emergent areas of the Semantic Web and knowledge management push researchers to new efforts concerning ontology engineering. The development of ontologies must b...
Konstantinos Kotis, George A. Vouros, Jerón...
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Model Theoretic Semantics for Ontology Versioning
Abstract. We show that the Semantic Web needs a formal semantics for the various kinds of links between ontologies and other documents. We provide a model theoretic semantics that ...
Jeff Heflin, Zhengxiang Pan
SEKE
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
AgentService
This paper describes the software infrastructure introduced within the AgentService framework in order to provide support for ontology design, development, and management. Ontolog...
Antonio Boccalatte, Andrea Gozzi, Alberto Grosso, ...