Nowadays many petroleum companies are adopting different knowledge-based systems
aiming to have a better reservoir quality prediction. However, there are obstacles that not …

Nowadays many petroleum companies are adopting different knowledge-based systems in
order to improve the reservoir quality prediction. In the last years, these systems have been …

Ontologies are commonly used in computer science either as a reference model to support
semantic interoperability in several scenarios, or as a computer-tractable artifact that should …

When the size of an ontology increases, it becomes hard to be managed. Ontology view
extraction is an approach that can be used for overcoming the challenges that arise in this …

This paper discusses the Ontology-driven Interactive Search Environment for Earth Sciences
(ODISEES) project currently being developed to aid researchers attempting to find usable …

The administration of electronic publication in the Information Era congregates old and new
problems, especially those related with Information Retrieval and Automatic Knowledge …

At present, oil companies acquire data by measurement surveys during field operation. In
order to reduce exploration and production risks, they use various software tools for …

Traditionally, the materials science heavily relies on costly experiments and simulation
based methods to understand the intrinsic mechanisms of the relationships among …

Semantic Web technologies enable people to create data stores on the Web, build
vocabularies, and write rules for handling data. They have been in use for several years …

Ontologies proved to be efficient and powerful tools for gathering and sharing knowledge,
providing explicit specifications of conceptualizations. However, the proper ontology …