Abstract In the domain of information systems ontologies, notion completeness refers to ontological contents by demanding that they be exhaustive with respect ontology aims represent. The purpose this paper is analyze such a notion, distinguishing different varieties and questioning its consistency open-world assumption, which formally assumes incompleteness conceptualizations on ontologies.

Ontologies have gained popularity in a wide range of research fields, the domains where possible interpretations terms to be narrowed and there is need for explicit inter-relations concepts. Although reusability has always been claimed as one main characteristics ontologies, it shown that reusing domain ontologies not common practice. Perhaps this due fact despite large number works towards com...

Current analyses of co-expressed genes are often based on global approaches such as clustering or bi-clustering. An alternative way is to employ local methods and search for patterns--sets of genes displaying specific expression properties in a set of situations. The main bottleneck of this type of analysis is twofold--computational costs and an overwhelming number of candidate patterns which c...

Reports of adverse events aim to monitor the status of patients in clinical trials or to provide ongoing monitoring of the safety of interventions once they are in the market. They help identify issues with treatment safety and efficacy, and allow for better education of health practitioners and the general public, ultimately allowing us to learn from our mistakes. However if such reports are t...

OWL is one of the most popular ontology languages, mostly due to its expressiveness as well as its formal semantics. Yet, in the biomedical domain, OBO, a language that was expressly developed for the construction of bioontologies, is the format preferred by the community for this purpose. This is best exemplified by the fact that OBO-based ontologies are driving the model organism databases th...

AgreementMakerLight (AML) is an automated ontology matching system based primarily on element-level matching and on the use of external resources as background knowledge. This paper describes its configuration for the OAEI 2016 competition and discusses its results. For this OAEI edition, we tackled instance matching for the first time, thus expanding the coverage of AML to all types of ontolog...