The supplier selection problem is one of the most important competitive challenges used by
modern enterprises. Due to the fact that companies have to improve their practices in the …

Being information-intensive, the construction industry has the feature of multiagents,
including multiparticipants from different disciplines, multiprocesses with a long-span …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

In this paper, we present the current results of the newly formed IEEE-RAS Working Group,
named Ontologies for Robotics and Automation. In particular, we introduce a core ontology …

Ontologies can represent technological enablers for knowledge elicitation and management
in different kinds of organizations, especially with the exponential growth of sources and …

The connection between humans and digital technologies has been documented
extensively in the past decades but needs to be evaluated through the current global …

The Internet has become a significant transaction platform for the real estate industry.
However, use of the Internet does not benefit homebuyers in terms of search time, flexibility …

Abstract An Introduction to Ontology Engineering is a free online textbook that provides an
overview of ontology engineering, including logics and automated reasoning, methods and …

Litigation in court is still the main dispute resolution mode. However, given the amount and
characteristics of the new disputes, mostly arising out of electronic contracting, courts are …

During the previous years, there has been a growing concern on ontology due to its ability to
explicitly describe data semantics in a common way, with independent data source …