Computational ontologies in the context of information systems are artifacts that encode a
description of some world, for some purpose. Under the assumption that there exist classes …

Ontology creation and management related processes are very important to define and
develop semantic services. Ontology Engineering is the research field that provides the …

Abstract Farmers in Sri Lanka are badly affected by not being able to get vital information
required to support their farming activities in a timely manner. Some of the required …

The general objective of the thesis is to provide domain independent, and resource
independent methods and tools for speeding up the ontology development process and is …

With the goal of speeding up the ontology development process, ontology engineers are
starting to reuse as much as possible available ontologies and non-ontological resources …

Today's world economy has been likened to a mosaic of interconnected regions or islands of
economic development. Be they successful 'industrial districts' or less successful, less …

Flume experiments investigated the effect of mobile sand on the erosion of cohesive beds.
The fluid-induced stress alone was not enough to cause erosion, and sand motion as bed …

Inovação constitui uma característica fundamental ao ser humano em sua busca pela
sobrevivência. Essencialmente, envolve aprendizado e ocorre em contextos sistêmicos de …

The ontologization of non-ontological resources has led to the design of several specific
methods, techniques and tools. Among those techniques, we have the Re-engineering …

Certain ontology domain concepts are difficult to model due to the complexity of their
definition, the number of roles that they fulfill in the ontology or the different types of …