... ontology specifications . Knowledge Acqui- sition , 5 ( 2 ) : 199-220 , 1993 [ GW02 ] N. Guarino , C. A. Welty : Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean , Communi- cations of the ACM 45 ( 2 ) , 2002 [ HJ02 ] C. W. Holsapple ...

... ontology provides agents with a vocabulary to represent and communicate knowledge, make statements, and ask queries about a subject domain. In this way, ontologies enable agents to share their tasks, cooperate, and coordinate their ...

George Ramsay. ONTOLOGY OR , THINGS EXISTING * CHAPTER FIRST . WHAT IS ONTOLOGY ? 1. ONTOLOGY is the science of things existing , of things existing permanently ; and its object is to determine what these things are ; how we come to know ...

Reclaiming the Value of Nature by Transforming Culture Josef Šmajs. One. PROBLEMS. OF. TRADITIONAL. ONTOLOGY. 1. Ontology as a Theory of Being The term “being”, first used by Parmenides and subsequently adopted in the history of European ...

Jérôme Euzenat, Pavel Shvaiko. Ontology integration is the inclusion in one ontology of another ontology and assertions expressing the glue between these ontologies, usually as bridge axioms. The integrated ontology is assumed to contain ...

... ontology based information extraction exploiting all levels of on- tological knowledge , from domain entities for named entity recognition , to the use of conceptual hierarchies for pattern generalization , to the use of properties and ...

... ontology evolution Maintenance is classified into four groups (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEE], 1990) ... Ontology Evolution Ontology evolution consists in managing persistent ontology changes 183 Ontology Evolution.

J. T. M. Miller. 10 Levels of Ontology and Natural Language The Case of the Ontology of Parts and Wholes Friederike Moltmann 10.1 Introduction In contemporary metaphysics , it is rather common to recognize two levels of ontology : ( 1 ) ...

... ontology engineering process include the business architecture artifacts (value streams, capability maps, information maps, interview questions and responses, gap analysis, and so forth), a set of use cases that leverage the capability ...

Nazir Ahmad, Mohammad. Related Ontology Process Automatic and semi automatic ontology creation. Ontology querying. Ontology integration. Ontology persistence. Ontology querying. Ontology Integration. Ontology Mapping. Ontology Evolution ...