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In 2004, a small team of investigators undertook a prototype development effort to explore how semantics could be inserted in several existing scientific data systems being supported by the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for ...

"Ontology" in association with "software engineering" is becoming commonplace. This paper argues for the need to place ontologies at the centre of the software development lifecycle for multi agent systems to enhance reuse of software workproducts as ...

Networks of sensors are increasingly used to monitor essential environmental variables for biodiversity, water, and climate change research. Such multidisciplinary scientific projects require more flexible ways to publish and aggregate sensor ...

Module extraction plays an important role in the reuse of ontologies as well as in the simplification and optimization of some reasoning tasks such as finding justifications for entailments. In this paper we focus on the problem of extracting small ...

This paper proposes a diagrammatic logic that is suitable for specifying ontologies. We take a case study style approach to presenting the diagrammatic logic, and draw contrast with RDF graphs and description logics. We provide specifications of two ...

As the demand for environmental sensing grows, there is an urgent need to improve access to observation data collected by sensor systems. However, sensing devices and the platforms on which they are deployed are highly heterogeneous in their ...

To speed up creation of personalized requirements models for users, it is necessary to systematically model domain knowledge and specify a reuse mechanism to customize personalized requirements models. Based on a unified framework for requirements ...