Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become a popular paradigm for centralized control
in many modern networking scenarios such as data centers and cloud. For large data …

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 …

With the rising importance of knowledge interchange, many industrial and academic
applications have adopted ontologies as their conceptual backbone. Business dynamics …

With rising importance of knowledge interchange, many industrial and academic
applications have adopted ontologies as their conceptual backbone. However, industrial …

Web services are expected to be the key technology in enabling the next installment of the
Web in the form of the Service Web. In this paradigm shift, Web services would be treated as …

By all measures, the Web is enormous and growing at a staggering rate, which has made it
increasingly difficult-and important-for both people and programs to have quick and accurate …

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 …

One of the major problems of large scale, distributed and evolving ontologies is the potential
introduction of inconsistencies. In this paper we survey four different approaches to handling …

In traditional software systems, significant attention is devoted to keeping modules well
separated and coherent with respect to functionality, thus ensuring that changes in the …

Organizations often provide workers with knowledge management systems to help them
obtain knowledge they need. A significant constraint on the effectiveness of such systems is …