Ontology is a significant research theme in GIScience. While some researchers believe that
the progress in GIScience is being directed through an engagement with the concept of …

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 …

The current chapter presents an overview about the current stage of the foundational
ontology GFO. GFO (General Formal Ontology). GFO is a foundational ontology integrating …

RacerPro is a software system for building applications based on ontologies. The backbone
of RacerPro is a description logic reasoner. It provides inference services for terminological …

After the vision of the Semantic Web was broadcasted at the turn of the millennium, ontology
became a synonym for the solution to many problems concerning the fact that computers do …

The increasing awareness of the benefits of ontologies for information processing has lead
to the creation of a number of large ontologies about real-world domains. The size of these …

Source domain verification has not received as much attention as criteria for metaphor
identification in the study of conceptual metaphor. In this paper, we provide a replicable …

Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic,
subjective manual map**s that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target …

Foreword Innovation equally requires rational problem solving and interpretive space
(Lester & Piore, 2004). It is a key challenge for innovation management to overcome this …

For more than a decade constructing ontologies for legal domains, we, at the Leibniz Center
for Law, felt really the need to develop a core ontology for law that would enable us to re-use …