Our industrialised societies are heavily dependent on standards. That we can safely assume
that electric plugs of a certain kind, independently of their manufacturer, fit into certain …

As the (in) famous definition states:'An ontology is an explicit specification of a
conceptualization'. However, an ontology is also a philosophical theory of existence, a …

Since 2002 we have been testing and refining a methodology for ontology development that
is now being used by multiple groups of researchers in different life science domains. Gary …

In this paper we describe a legal core ontology that is part of a generic architecture for legal
knowledge systems, which will enable the interchange of knowledge between existing legal …

Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world
are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly …

Objective: The National Cancer Institute Thesaurus is described by its authors as “a
biomedical vocabulary that provides consistent, unambiguous codes and definitions for …

In this paper we describe a legal core ontology that is part of the Legal Knowledge
Interchange Format: a knowledge representation formalism that enables the translation of …

Objectives: Medical decision support and other intelligent applications in the life sciences
depend on increasing amounts of digital information. Knowledge bases as well as formal …

We propose a new family of probabilistic description logics (DLs) that, in contrast to most
existing approaches, are derived in a principled way from Halpern's probabilistic firstorder …

In the traditional systems modeling approach, the modeler is required to capture a user's
view of some domain in a formal conceptual schema. The designer's conceptualization may …