e-Science offers a promising vision of how computer and communication technology can
support and enhance the scientific process. It does this by enabling scientists to generate …

The entertainment system was belting out the Beatles'“We Can Work It Out” when the phone
rang. When Pete answered, his phone turned the sound down by sending a message to all …

Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development
process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and …

Ontologies were developed in Artificial Intelligence to facilitate knowledge sharing and
reuse. Since the beginning of the nineties ontologies have become a popular research topic …

We review the use on ontologies for the integration of heterogeneous information sources.
Based on an in-depth evaluation of existing approaches to this problem we discuss how …

In this paper we review and compare the main methodologies, tools and languages for
building ontologies that have been reported in the literature, as well as the main …

The recently introduced series of description logics under the common monikerDL-Lite'has
attracted attention of the description logic and semantic web communities due to the low …

Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web. It extracts
metadata for each discovered document, and computes relations between documents …

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 …