Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development
process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and …

This paper presents how to build an ontology in the legal domain following the ontology
development methodology METHONTOLOGY and using the ontology engineering …

Communication is one of the main activities in software projects, many such projects fail or
encounter serious problems because the stakeholders involved have different …

A new ontology development paradigm has started; its emphasis lies on the reuse and
possible subsequent reengineering of knowledge resources, on the collaborative and …

Robust knowledge sharing frameworks between different stakeholders in a building project
is of high priority. Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) provides a rich schema for …

In 1991, the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort ([88], p. 37) envisioned a new way to build
intelligent systems. It proposed the following: Building knowledge-based systems today …

Foreword Innovation equally requires rational problem solving and interpretive space
(Lester & Piore, 2004). It is a key challenge for innovation management to overcome this …

Bridges are essential portions of a nation's infrastructure systems. Although general rules
and guidelines are available for bridge preservation activity prediction, due to the intricate …

Afin de faciliter la mise en place de systèmes pouvant gérer de grandes quantités
d'information et de s' adresser à un maximum d'utilisateurs, le fonctionnement du noyau des …

Structured community portals extract and integrate information from raw Web pages to
present a unified view of entities and relationships in the community. In this paper we argue …