In recent years ontology-based systems engineering has grown significantly. Its raison d'etre
is to use ontologies to improve the systems engineering body of knowledge. Specifically …

Current developments in ICTs such as in Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber–Physical
Systems (CPS) allow us to develop healthcare solutions with more intelligent and prediction …

Ontology-driven conceptual modeling (ODCM) is still a relatively new research domain in
the field of information systems and there is still much discussion on how the research in …

A smart city can be defined as a city exploiting information and communication technologies
to enhance the quality of life of its citizens by providing them with improved services while …

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

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a powerful new paradigm for connecting and
communicating with the world around us. It has the potential to transform the way we live …

The inconsistency of data terminology has imposed big challenges on integrating
transportation project data from distinct sources. Differences in meaning of data elements …

This paper presents an axiomatic formalization of a theory of top-level relations between
three categories of entities: individuals, universals, and collections. We deal with a variety of …

Geospatial semantics is a broad field that involves a variety of research areas. The term
semantics refers to the meaning of things, and is in contrast with the term syntactics …

One of the main problems facing 3D city modelling applications is lack of interoperability
among various Building Information Models (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems …