Architecture descriptions have been the focus of several studies in which they contribute for the design, evaluation, and evolution of software systems. In parallel, ontologies have been proposed for sharing and disseminating ...

The Semantic Web uses ontologies to associate meaning to Web content so machines can process it. One inherent problem to this approach is that, as its popularity increases, there is an ever growing number of ontologies ...

Ontology development techniques still constitute an open research area despite its importance in semantic aware information systems. Until now, most methods have used UML in supporting ontology development process. Recent ...

In this paper, patient mobile monitoring enabling framework architecture is presented. To this end, biometric devices (e.g. glucometers, blood pressure meters) are used to send data to the mobile phone via technology such ...

This paper carries out a descriptive study on Portuguese adjectives. Our aim is to describe the semantics of the legal domain adjectives in order to construct an ontology which may improve Information Retrieval Systems. ...

Ontologies are becoming an important mechanism to build information systems. Nevertheless, there is still no systematic approach to support the design of such systems using tools that are common to information systems ...