An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …
Ontology evolution aims at maintaining an ontology up to date with respect to changes in the domain that it models or novel requirements of information systems that it enables. The …
P Shvaiko, J Euzenat - … International Conferences" On the Move to …, 2008 - Springer
This paper aims at analyzing the key trends and challenges of the ontology matching field. The main motivation behind this work is the fact that despite many component matching …
C Pedrinaci, J Domingue - Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2010 - oro.open.ac.uk
It has often been argued that Web services would have a tremendous impact on the Web, as a core enabling technology supporting a highly efficient service-based economy at a global …
In this tool report, we present an overview of the Watson system, a Semantic Web search engine providing various functionalities not only to find and locate ontologies and semantic …
M Sabou, M Fernandez - Ontology engineering in a networked world, 2011 - Springer
Ontology evaluation refers to the activity of checking the technical quality of an ontology against a frame of reference. As such, it is of core importance for ontology engineering …
With the development of the Semantic Web (SW), the creation of ontologies to formally conceptualize our understanding of various domains has widely increased in number …
M Fernández, C Overbeeke, M Sabou… - The Semantic Web: Fourth …, 2009 - Springer
Understanding which ontology characteristics can predict a “good” quality ontology, is a core and ongoing task in the Semantic Web. In this paper, we provide our findings on which …
The ontology alignment consists in generating a set of correspondences between entities. These entities can be concepts, properties or instances. The ontology alignment is an …