Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) idea, explored across the globe, brings about an
important issue: how to achieve interoperability among multiple existing (and constantly …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses description logics (DLs), which are a family of
logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the …

Description logics (DLs) have a long tradition in computer science and knowledge
representation, being designed so that domain knowledge can be described and so that …

This system description paper introduces the OWL 2 reasoner HermiT. The reasoner is fully
compliant with the OWL 2 Direct Semantics as standardised by the World Wide Web …

We present Uberon, an integrated cross-species ontology consisting of over 6,500 classes
representing a variety of anatomical entities, organized according to traditional anatomical …

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 …

A few years after Google announced that their 'Knowledge Graph'would have allowed
searching for things, not strings, 1 knowledge graphs start entering information retrieval …

This paper introduces a knowledge-driven approach to real-time, continuous activity
recognition based on multisensor data streams in smart homes. The approach goes beyond …

Ontologies are widely used in biological and biomedical research. Their success lies in their
combination of four main features present in almost all ontologies: provision of standard …

We present the OWL API, a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working
with OWL ontologies. The OWL API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification …