Feature models (FM) are a way for modeling and describing the product family of specific domain. They are widely used for describing the requirements in the domain engineering as it describes the commonalities and the differences of related products in specific domain. Currently the research in the feature model analysis and the validation of it focus on capturing the inconsistencies of the fea...

Ontology, regarded as a basic knowledge structure for information on the Semantic Web, often captures a semantic network and represents it by a graph. The domain ontology model of e-business is built combined with knowledge of domain expert. The domain ontology model of e-business is built combined with knowledge of domain expert. Ontology provides common understanding of the domain knowledge a...

This paper presents an overview of the integration approach developed in the PLIB project (officially ISO 132584 ”parts Library”). This approach is based on (1) an ontology model, (2) an ontology mapping model, and (3) an ontology-based database model (OBDB).

This paper discusses ontology-aware authoring tool for training systems. This tool uses the ontology as the source of its intelligence. The ontology plays the role of a meta-model which helps authors to construct a model. The major advantages of such an authoring tool are: (1) Providing human-friendly primitives (descriptiveness, readability). (2) Providing multiple-views of the single model of...

In this paper we present a model and a corresponding ontology for associating lexical information to entities of a given domain ontology. In particular, we focus on representing subcategorization frames as well as their mapping to ontological structures. The lexicon model and ontology can thus be used to specify the syntax-semantic interface for ontology-based NLP systems which are expected to ...

We describe the construction and use of SeaLiT Ontology, an extension ISO standard CIDOC-CRM for modelling integration maritime history information. The ontology has been developed gradually, following a bottom-up approach that required analysis large amounts real primary data (archival material) as well knowledge validation by domain experts (maritime historians). present specification ontolog...

The cores of granular computing are the granule, the granule layer and the granule structure. In this paper the concepts “Ontology granule” and “Compatible granule” were defined, applying the granular computing ideas and an ontology model, an Ontology granular set; and thus ontology tree generation algorithms were proposed. These algorithms produce an initial ontology granular set with a compat...

In recent years, computing becomes more mobile and pervasive; these changes imply that applications and services must be aware of and adapt to their changing contexts in highly dynamic environments. To allow interoperability in a context-aware computing environment (e.g. smart meeting space), it is necessary that the context terminology will be commonly understood by all the connected entities ...