Social identities merit special treatment in realist ontologies. Their ontological status is unsettled, so we should model them in a manner that is agnostic with respect to their ontological status. Nevertheless, there is a clear criterion for determining whether a specific person has a particular identity, namely, whether that person asserts that they do. This social act forms the basis for a ...

As a powerful tool, ontology has been widely applied in social science, medicine science and computer science. In computer networks, especially, ontology is used for search extension, thus boost the quality of information retrieval. Ontology concept similarity calculation is an essential problem in these applications. A new method to get similarity between vertices on ontology graph is by machi...

Ontology maturing as a conceptual process model is based on the assumption that ontology engineering is a continuous collaborative and informal learning process and always embedded in tasks that make use of the ontology to be developed. For supporting ontology maturing, we need lightweight and easy-to-use tools integrating usage and construction processes of ontologies. Within two applications ...

The lack of precise models to support the design and analysis of social inclusion systems, and the growing informatization of the society which connects digital to social inclusion in multiple ways, lead to the need of exploring in full the potential of information technology to support social inclusion. However, this potential can only be achieved if we can rely on precise models that can be u...

Abstract. Semantic Web technologies facilitate tasks such as collaboration, shared experimentation, and annotation of resources and have particular strength in capturing qualitative scientific arguments. In this paper we explore the design of an ontology for a social simulation tool called FEARLUS-G. This lead to a description of the tools used during the ontology engineering, and how the ontol...