It is now widely accepted that ontologies play a critical role in achieving the goal of machine
understandable web, also known as semantic web. In order to develop ontologies, several …

Ontology is a significant research theme in GIScience. While some researchers believe that
the progress in GIScience is being directed through an engagement with the concept of …

In contrast to other approaches that provide methodological guidance for ontology
engineering, the NeOn Methodology does not prescribe a rigid workflow, but instead it …

In this paper we review and compare the main methodologies, tools and languages for
building ontologies that have been reported in the literature, as well as the main …

There are now several billion documents on the World Wide Web (WWW), which are used
by more than 300 million users globally, and millions more pages on corporate intranets …

Ontologies are an important component in many areas, such as knowledge management
and organization, electronic commerce and information retrieval and extraction. Several …

In this chapter we present the On-To-Knowledge Methodology (OTKM) for introducing and
maintaining ontology based knowledge management applications into enterprises with a …

Ontology is an important emerging discipline that has the huge potential to improve
information organization, management and understanding. It has a crucial role to play in …

The full vision of the Semantic Web and its mainstream adoption is still five to 10 years away.
To get a current snapshot of key trends and developments, University of Madeira …

This paper proposes a novel model for automatic construction of business processes called
IPCASCI (Intelligent business Processes Composition based on multi-Agent systems …