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DOLCE ROCKS: Integrating Geoscience Ontologies with DOLCE

Conceptual representations are being developed within many geoscience domains to aid semantic-enabled scientific computing, e.g. geology, geophysics, hydrology, marine science, planetary science. These representations often make different ontological assumptions, causing their integration to be impeded. This is particularly problematic for science issues that involve crossdomain knowledge, such...

Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE

In this paper we introduce the DOLCE upper level ontology, the first module of a Foundational Ontologies Library being developed within the WonderWeb project. DOLCE is presented here in an intuitive way; the reader should refer to the project deliverable for a detailed axiomatization. A comparison with WordNet's top-level taxonomy of nouns is also provided, which shows how DOLCE, used in additi...

Foundational Choices in DOLCE

Causality and Causation in DOLCE

We present a general conceptualization of causal relations that pivots on the distinction between causality, a law-like relation between types of events, and causation, the actual causal relation that holds between individual events. This distinction finds its formal characterization and embedding within DOLCE, in terms of a number of dependences between (types of) quality changes. Finally an a...

Integrating Geoscience Ontologies with Dolce

Cross-disciplinary e-Science can be enabled by using foundational ontologies such as Dolce to integrate knowledge representations from different geoscience domains. G eoscientists are increasingly concerned with big problems related to climate change, natural hazards, and environmental health. In solving these problems, they're regularly encountering data and knowledge that are complex, diverse...