Despite significant progress over the last years the large-scale adoption of semantic
technologies is still to come. One of the reasons for this state of affairs is assumed to be the …

This chapter gives an overview of the Semantic Web which aims to enable automatic
retrieval, extraction and integration of information on the World Wide Web (WWW). Event …

Ontologies are an integral part of Knowledge and Information Management systems and
there is increased interest in using ontologies for organizational memory. Ontology learning …

In this paper we propose facilitating ontology development by constant evaluation of steps in
the process of ontology development. Existing methodologies for ontology development are …

The objective of the knowledge architecture of ATRACO is to enhance communication, as
well as to ensure effective knowledge sharing among ATRACO components. It is built …

The lack of rapid approaches in ontology development led us to define Rapid Ontology
Development (ROD) approach. The following approach includes the development process …

The applications of ontologies are mainly restricted to academia while successful
employment in business environments is rare. Existing methodologies are complex and …

After classifying the multitude of the ontology development methodologies available in the
literature, we propose a new ontology development approach, by combining activities from …

A scheme to implement Lagrange interpolation for/spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/D/A (digital/analog)
converters is presented. The proposed implementation requires only sums of digital signals …

In this paper we employ Rapid Ontology Development approach (ROD) with constant
evaluation of steps in the process of ontology construction for development of Financial …