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 …

Semantic Web Mining aims at combining the two fast-developing research areas Semantic
Web and Web Mining. This survey analyzes the convergence of trends from both areas …

Product design is a highly involved, often ill-defined, complex and iterative process, and the
needs and specifications of the required artifact get more refined only as the design process …

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 …

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 …

Ontologies now play an important role for many knowledge-intensive applications for which
they provide a source of precisely defined terms. However, with their wide-spread usage …

Ontologies are an important component in many areas, such as knowledge management
and organization, electronic commerce and information retrieval and extraction. Several …

In this chapter we present the On-To-Knowledge Methodology (OTKM) for introducing and
maintaining ontology based knowledge management applications into enterprises with a …

The evaluation of ontologies is an emerging field. At present, a deep core of preliminary
ideas and guidelines for evaluating ontologies is missing. This paper presents a brief …

Currently, techniques for content description and query processing in Information Retrieval
(IR) are based on keywords, and therefore provide limited capabilities to capture the …