The paradigm shift from mass production to mass customisation and reduced product
lifecycles requires continuous re-engineering/configuration of modern manufacturing …

Abstract In the Internet of Things (IoT), data-producing entities sense their environment and
transmit these observations to a data processing platform for further analysis. Applications …

Accommodating frequent product changes in a short period of time is a challenging task due
to limitations of the contemporary engineering approach to design, build and reconfigure …

This chapter aims at providing a hand note on the Dolce+ D&S UltraliteUltralite ontology
(DUL) 1 and its main ontology design patterns (ODP). ODPs are modelling solutions to …

In recent years, an increasing number of ontologies and semantic web applications have
been developed and used. A conscious effort has been made to develop methods to …

Ontologies, which are formal representations of knowledge within a domain, can be used for
designing and sharing conceptual models of enterprises information for the purpose of …

The contribution of this paper is twofold:(i) a UML stereotype for component diagrams that
allows for representing ontologies as a set of interconnected Ontology Design Patterns …

Today, it is well known that taking into account the semantic information available for
categorical variables sensibly improves the meaningfulness of the final results of any …

Ontology has received considerable attention in the semantic technology community. This
paper discusses the roles of ontology modularization in human-web interface design for …

In the ongoing discussion about combining rules and ontologies on the Semantic Web a
recurring issue is how to combine first-order classical logic with nonmonotonic rule …