Multiple Classification Ripple Down Rules (MCRDR) is a knowledge acquisition technique that produces representations, or knowledge maps, of a human expert’s knowledge of a partic...
This paper proposes lexical annotation as an effective method to solve the ambiguity problems that affect ontology matchers. Lexical annotation associates to each ontology elemen...
Currently, the cDNA and genomic sequence projects are processing at such a rapid rate that more and more gene data become available. New methods are needed to efficiently and eff...
This paper proposes a method of using ontology hierarchy in automatic topic identification. The fundamental idea behind this work is to exploit an ontology hierarchical structure i...
There is an increasing need for Internet hosts to be able to quickly and efficiently learn the distance, in terms of metrics such as latency or bandwidth, between Internet hosts. ...
Paul Francis, Sugih Jamin, Vern Paxson, Lixia Zhan...