Ontologies are often viewed as the answer to the need for interoperable semantics in
modern information systems. The explosion of textual information on the Read/Write Web …

The idea of a decentralised, self-organising service-oriented architecture seems to be more
and more plausible than the traditional registry-based ones in view of the success of the web …

The need for interoperable semantics in modern information systems forces to develop more
and more intelligent solutions. The increasing demand for these solutions, the explosion of …

Extant systems engineering standards are so fragmented that the conceptualization of a
cohesive body of knowledge is not easy. The discrepancies between different standards …

Reference ontologies provide a shared vocabulary and knowledge resource for their
domain. Manual construction and annotation enables them to maintain high quality, allowing …

In this paper we present an ontological approach to build a knowledge-base on climate
change related facts. Our knowledge space, developed in Ontology Web Language (OWL) …

Ontologies represent human domain expertise symbolically in a way that is accessible to
human experts and suitable for a variety of applications. As a result, they are widely used in …

This paper aims to describe a public procurement information platform which provides a
unified pan-European system that exploits the aggregation of tender notices using linking …

Ontologies, as knowledge engineering tools, allow information to be modelled in ways
resembling to those used by the human brain, and may be very useful in the context of …

This paper presents the US Election 2004 Web Monitor, a public Web portal that captured
trends in political media coverage before and after the 2004 US presidential election …