The interest in the use of ontologies for creating more intelligent and effective enterprise information systems has increased considerably in recent years. The most critical aspects during the development of these 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 ...

The article discusses the creation of ontology standards and how the resources and practices developed by the Ontology Design Patterns team (NEON Project) propose standards and recommendations for the organization, access ...

This manuscript presents a mobile monitoring application to allow a patient to monitor a chronic disease using mobile devices. This application is developed according to three components that enable the semi-automatic ...

The adoption of ontologically well founded languages for building ontologies has acquiring more adopters, however its widespread use stumble on using difficulties by inexperienced modelers. This dissertation proposes a ...

The use of ontologies in Computer Science has as main purpose to allow sharing and reusing of knowledge. It is important that the concepts present in the ontology have in fact a formal specification. This article presents ...

DMOZ is the largest human-edited topic ontology available on the Web. This article studies the structural properties of the DMOZ graph. A number of global and local properties of this graph and the subgraphs resulting from ...