background: recurrence rate of rotator cuff tears is still high despite the improvements of surgical techniques, materials used and a better knowledge of the healing process of the rotator cuff tendons. large to massive rotator cuff tears are particularly associated with a high failure rate, especially in elderly. augmentation of rotator cuff repairs with extracellular matrix or synthetic patch...

This paper tested the hypothesis that the structural components of vegetation have impact over the distribution of owl species in a fragment of a semi-deciduous seasonal forest. This paper also determined which vegetation variables contributed to the spatial distribution of owl species. It was developed in the Perobas Biological Reserve (PBR) between September and December 2011. To conduct the ...

Classification is a fundamental reasoning task in ontology design, and there is currently a wide range of reasoners highly optimised for classification of OWL 2 ontologies. There are also several reasoners that are complete for restricted fragments of OWL 2 , such as the OWL 2 EL profile. These reasoners are much more efficient than fully-fledged OWL 2 reasoners, but they are not complete for o...

OWL ontologies are complex computational artifacts that are intimately connected with conceptual information and with application issues that are not easily explicable in the context of an OWL document. In this paper, drawing inspiration from literate programming and active essays, I propose a new form of narratively oriented, interactive OWL document. The basic technique has been applied to th...

Epistemic querying extends standard ontology inferencing by allowing for deductive introspection. We propose a technique for epistemic querying of OWL 2 ontologies not featuring nominals and universal roles by a reduction to a series of standard OWL 2 reasoning steps thereby enabling the deployment of off-the-shelf OWL 2 reasoning tools for this task. We prove formal correctness of our method, ...

We propose a technique that combine an OWL 2 EL reasoner with an OWL 2 reasoner to classify expressive ontologies. We exploit the information implied by the ontology structure to identify a small non-EL ontology that contains necessary axioms to ensure the completeness. In the process of ontology classification, the bulk of workload is delegated to an efficient OWL 2 EL reasoner and the small p...

Establishing the compatibility of services is an essential prerequisite to service composition. By formally defining the similarity of semantic services, useful information can be obtained about their compatibility. In this paper we propose a metric for measuring the similarity of semantic services annotated with OWL ontology. Similarity is calculated by defining the intrinsic information value...

The goal of this article is to map between Object Role Modeling (ORM) and Ontology Web Language 2 (OWL 2 DL). This mapping allows one to graphically develop his/her ontology using the ORM notation, while the ORM is automatically translated into OWL 2 DL. We map the most commonly used rules of ORM into OWL 2 DL which have the ability of decidability. DogmaModeler is extended to perform automatic...

In this paper, we propose a rule-based technique to generate redundancy-free natural language (NL) descriptions of Web Ontology Language (OWL) entities. The existing approaches which address the problem of verbalizing OWL ontologies generate NL text segments which are close to their counterpart statements in the ontology. Some of these approaches also perform grouping and aggregating of these N...

OWL is a very expressive language, but some user obviously struggle to formulate what they want to say. Now, some of these users may find it easier to write down a SWRL rule instead of an OWL axiom. Hence, we present a rule editor plug-in for Protégé that brings something different to rule and OWL integration. We part from the two usual approaches: (i) use it as is with say, Hoolet, knowing tha...