Os estudos sobre a organização da informação têm recebido cada vez mais importância à
medida que o número crescente de fontes de dados disponíveis dificulta a recuperação da …

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 …

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 now play an important role for enabling the semantic web. They provide a source
of precisely defined terms eg for knowledge-intensive applications. The terms are used for …

In the last years, the development of ontology-based applications has increased
considerably, mainly related to the semantic web. Users currently looking for ontologies in …

Data warehouses are databases of a specific kind that periodically collect information about
the activities being performed by an organization. This information is then accumulated over …

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

The use of methodologies in software and knowledge engineering is very extensive due to
their important advantages. In the case of the development of ontologies, until now, several …

Similar to managing software packages, managing the ontology life cycle involves multiple
complex workflows such as preparing releases, continuous quality control checking and …

With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), more and more sensors, actuators and
mobile devices have been deployed into our daily lives. The result is that tremendous data …