Abstract—Vocabulary alignment is a main challenge in distributed access control as peers should understand each other’s policies unambiguously. Ontologies enable mutual underst...
Daniel Trivellato, Fred Spiessens, Nicola Zannone,...
As the use of Semantic Web ontologies continues to expand there is a growing need for tools that can validate ontological consistency and provide guidance in the correction of dete...
Kenneth Baclawski, Christopher J. Matheus, Mieczys...
Abstract. Ontology matching has become an important field of research over the last years. Although many different approaches have been proposed, only few of them are committed t...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
Abstract Description Logics (DLs) are a family of class (concept) based knowledge representation formalisms. They are characterised by the use of various constructors to build comp...