This paper outlines a project (involving FAO, SIFAR, and CNR) aimed at building an ontology in the fishery domain. The ontology will support semantic interoperability among existing fishery information systems and will enhance information extraction and text marking, envisaging a fishery semantic web. The ontology is being built through the conceptual integration and merging of existing fishery...

Software Architecture plays a key role in software development but absence of formal description of Software Architecture causes different impede in software development. To cope with these difficulties, ontology has been used as artifact. This paper proposes ontology for Software Architectural design based on IEEE model for architecture description and Kruchten 4+1 model for viewpoints classif...

Reactome is a manually-curated, peer-reviewed knowledgebase of human pathways and processes. As a standard pathway data exchange format, BioPAX represents individual interactors (e.g., a protein), interactions, and pathways as instances instead of classes. This study aims to represent various human interaction pathways and networks as classes via a formal ontology aligned with the Basic Formal ...

Natural language processing is an area of artificial intelligence that defines a set of methods and techniques used to automate the translation process between computers and humans or mediate the human-machine communication. NLP focuses on developing systems that allow computers to communicate with people using everyday language and also concerns how computational methods can aid the understand...

The central hypothesis of the collaboration between Language and Computing (L&C) and the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) is that the methodology and conceptual rigor of a philosophically inspired formal ontology greatly benefits application ontologies.[1] To this end LinKBase®, L&C’s ontology, which is designed to integrate and reason across various extern...

In this paper, we describe an engineering process of building an ontology for Yorùbá Cultural Heritage (YCH). The aim of this work is to design and implement an ontology representing knowledge embedded in YCH as a digital (documentation) resource. Building an indigenous knowledge management system requires a formal representation of YCH concepts and their relationships. Even so, YCH resources a...

Self-managing systems will be highly dependent upon information acquired from disparate applications, devices, components and subsystems. To be effectively managed, such information will need to conform to a common model. One standard that provides a common model for describing disparate computer and network information is the Common Information Model (CIM). Although CIM defines the models nece...

Ontologies constitute formal models of some aspect of the world that may be used for drawing interesting logical conclusions even for large models. Software models capture relevant characteristics of a software artifact to be developed, yet, most often these software models have no formal semantics, or the underlying (often graphical) software language varies from case to case in a way that mak...

Medical ontology construction is an interactive process that requires the collaboration of both ICT and medical experts. The complexity of the medical domain and the formal description languages makes this collaboration a time consuming and error-prone task. In this paper, we define an ontology validation method that hides the complexity of the formal description languages behind a question-ans...

Few ontologies in the ecological domain exist, but their development can take advantage of gained experience in other domains and from existing modeling practices in ecology. Taxonomies do not suffice because more expressive modeling techniques are already available in ecology, and the perspective of flow with its centrality of events and processes cannot be represented adequately in a taxonomy...