This paper proposes a general consistency management methodology within ontology-driven WIS development. The contributions of this paper are follows: 1) introduces the concept stru...
In a distributed multi-agent based software environment, the traditional monolithic user model ceases to exist and is replaced by user model fragments, developed by the various so...
Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named `Buffalo' in the U.S. Country names such as `Canada', `Brazil' and `China' ar...
Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0...
While the Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a mechanism to import ontologies, this mechanism is not always suitable. First, given the current state of editing tools and the iss...
For execution of complex biological queries, data integration systems often use several intermediate data sources because the domain coverage of individual sources is limited. Qual...