Abstract. The Semantic Web is commonly perceived as a web of partially interlinked machine readable data. This data is inherently distributed and resembles the structure of the web...
Ontologies provide a means of modelling and representing a knowledge domain. Such representation, already used in purpose-built distributed information systems, can also be of gre...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
Abstract. Though ontologies are widely used to solve some specific interoperability problems, there is no specific ontology defining what interoperability actually is, independentl...
Yannick Naudet, Thibaud Latour, Kevin Hausmann, Sv...
We address the problem of answering Web ontology queries efficiently. An ontology is formalized as a Deductive Ontology Base (DOB), a deductive database that comprises the ontology...
Abstract--Formal methods are very useful in software industry and are becoming of paramount importance in practical engineering techniques. They involve the design and the modeling...