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OTM
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Engineering an Ontology of Financial Securities Fraud
Abstract. This paper discusses the approach of ontology-based knowledge engineering in FF POIROT, a project to explore the use of ontology technology in information systems against...
Gang Zhao, John Kingston, Koen Kerremans, Frederic...
OTM
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Revising and Managing Multiple Ontology Versions in a Possible Worlds Setting
Abstract. To date, ontology research seems to have come to an equilibrium: there is a wide variety of theories, methods and tools for extracting, representing, storing and browsing...
Pieter De Leenheer
NLDB
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Concept Similarity Measures the Understanding Between Two Agents
When knowledge in each agent is represented by an ontology of concepts and relations, concept communication can not be fulfilled through exchanging concepts (ontology nodes). Inste...
Jesus M. Olivares-Ceja, Adolfo Guzmán-Arena...
MICAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Finding the Most Similar Concepts in Two Different Ontologies
A concise manner to send information from agent A to B is to use phrases constructed with the concepts of A: to use the concepts as the atomic tokens to be transmitted. Unfortunate...
Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas, Jesus M. Olivares-Cej...
KES
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Managing Ontology Evolution Via Relational Constraints
Abstract. Ontology-based modelling is becoming increasingly important in the design of complex knowledge management applications. However, many problems related to large-scale onto...
Paolo Ceravolo, Angelo Corallo, Gianluca Elia, Ant...
ER
2004
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Querying Heterogeneous Spatial Databases: Combining an Ontology with Similarity Functions
This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...
Mariella Gutiérrez, M. Andrea Rodríg...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Enhancing Ontological Knowledge Through Ontology Population and Enrichment
Abstract. Ontologies are widely used for capturing and organizing knowledge of a particular domain of interest. This knowledge is usually evolvable and therefore an ontology mainte...
Alexandros G. Valarakos, Georgios Paliouras, Vange...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 5 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
DEXA
2004
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
An a Priori Approach for Automatic Integration of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Databases
Data integration is the process that gives users access to multiple data sources though queries against a global schema. Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as the most imp...
Ladjel Bellatreche, Guy Pierra, Dung Nguyen Xuan, ...
CIS
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Method of Acquiring Ontology Information from Web Documents
Abstract. Ontology plays an important role on the Semantic Web. In this paper, we propose a method, AOIWD, of acquiring ontology information from Web documents. The AOIWD method em...
Lixin Han, Guihai Chen, Li Xie