With the growing interest in modular ontology languages to address the need for collaborative development, integration, and use of ontologies on the Web, there is an urgent need fo...
This paper describes the initial stages of building an ontology of bioinformatics and molecular biology. The conceptualisation is encoded using the Ontology Inference Layer (OIL),...
Robert Stevens, Carole A. Goble, Ian Horrocks, Sea...
We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
A reasonably good description of the luminosity profiles of galaxies is needed as it serves as a guide towards understanding the process of galaxy formation and evolution. To obtai...
Jin Li, Xin Yao, Colin Frayn, Habib G. Khosroshahi...
In this paper, we describe an approach to formally assess whether an organization conforms to a body of regulation. Conformance is cast as a model checking question where the regul...
Nikhil Dinesh, Aravind K. Joshi, Insup Lee, Oleg S...