Functional modeling in safety by means of foundational ontologies

The Role of Foundational Ontologies in Deep Modeling

The Attractiveness of Foundational Ontologies in Industry

If we were to write a report on the ontology penetration rate in application-oriented domains like semantic web, database, engineering, business and medicine, just looking at the last year public events we would be justified in using an enthusiastic tone and even in going as far as to claim that ontology is nowadays a cornerstone in these areas. Indeed, many important conferences and specialize...

Foundational Process Relations in Bio-Ontologies

This paper aims to provide rigor to the process relations in the OBO relations ontology. We present a formal axiomatization of these relations in first order logic as a definitional extension of the Process Specification Language (PSL) Ontology. In particular, we formalize the process parthood, process specialization, process instantiation and instance level parthood relations of OBO. We also p...

Connecting Foundational Ontologies with MPEG-7 Ontologies for Multimodal QA

In the SMARTWEB project [1] we aim at developing a context-aware, mobile, and multimodal interface to the Semantic Web. In order to reach this goal we provide a integrated ontological framework offering coverage for deep semantic content, including ontological representation of multimedia based on the MPEG-7 standard. A discourse ontology covers concepts for multimodal interaction by means of a...

Thresholding functional connectomes by means of mixture modeling

Functional connectivity has been shown to be a very promising tool for studying the large-scale functional architecture of the human brain. In network research in fMRI, functional connectivity is considered as a set of pair-wise interactions between the nodes of the network. These interactions are typically operationalized through the full or partial correlation between all pairs of regional ti...