An ontology-based model for competence management
In the last years, the need for developing strategies, models and tools to manage competences clearly emerges in numerous...
A scenario-based verification technique to assess the compatibility of collaborative business processes
Successful E-Business is based on seamless collaborative business processes. Each partner in the collaboration specifies its own rules and...
Refining non-taxonomic relation labels with external structured data to support ontology learning
This paper presents a method to integrate external knowledge sources such as DBpedia and OpenCyc into an ontology learning...
ER isomorphisms and uniqueness conditions
Given a collection of entity types (database tables) there is usually more than one way to model their associations....
The E/S knowledge representation system
This paper introduces the E/S knowledge representation model and describes a system based on that model. The model takes...
Modelling of set membership” The notion and the issues
Although high-level data abstractions have been recognized as very important for modelling complex applications, one abstraction that is not...
Subtyping and polymorphism in object-role modelling
Although Entity-Relationship (ER) modelling techniques are commonly used for information modelling, Object-Role Modelling (ORM) techniques are becoming increasingly popular,...
An integrated, dual learner for grammars and ontologies
We introduce a dual-use methodology for automating the maintenance and growth of two types of knowledge sources, which are...
Enriching the class diagram concepts to capture natural language semantics for database access
Research on accessing databases using natural languages usually utilizes an intermediate logical form for the mapping process from natural...
Coordinating distributed organizational knowledge
As organizations move from hierarchical towards market-like structures, their distributed units also take a larger role in the design...
