Abstract The Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) is a language for the specification of
different aspects of Semantic Web Services. It provides a formal language for the Web …

Service-oriented computing has become one of the predominant factors in current IT
research and development. Web services seem to be the middleware solution of the future …

Digital ecosystems transcend the traditional, rigorously defined, collaborative environments
from centralised, distributed or hybrid models into an open, flexible, domain cluster, demand …

Description logics (DLs) and rules are formalisms that emphasize different aspects of
knowledge representation: whereas DLs are focused on specifying and reasoning about …

Logic programming (LP) is often seen as a way to overcome several shortcomings of the
Web Ontology Language (OWL), such as the inability to model integrity constraints or …

Frame Logic (F-logic) combines the advantages of conceptual modeling that come from
object-oriented frame-based languages with the declarative style, compact and simple …

Effective information management is critical for the development of manufacturing
processes. This paper aims to provide an overview of ontologies that can be utilized in …

Computer science is on the edge of an important new period of abstraction. A generation
ago we learned to abstract from hardware and currently we are learning to abstract from …

A layered architecture for the Semantic Web that adheres to software engineering principles
and the fundamental aspects of layered architectures will assist in the development of …

The correct functioning of Semantic Web applications requires that given RDF graphs
adhere to an expected shape. This shape depends on the RDF graph and the application's …