Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to
customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases …

An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

Schema matching is a basic problem in many database application domains, such as data
integration, E-business, data warehousing, and semantic query processing. In current …

The increasing demand of matching and mapping tasks in modern integration scenarios has
led to a plethora of tools for facilitating these tasks. While the plethora made these tools …

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 …

As ontology development becomes a more ubiquitous and collaborative process, ontology
versioning and evolution becomes an important area of ontology research. The many …

Library developers who have to evolve a library to accommodate changing requirements
often face a dilemma: Either they implement a clean, efficient solution but risk breaking client …

As ontology development becomes a more ubiquitous and collaborative process, the
developers face the problem of maintaining versions of ontologies akin to maintaining …

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The research area of ontology engineering seems to have reached a certain level of
maturity, considering the vast amount of contemporary methods and tools for formalising and …