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How to find suitable ontologies using an ontology-based WWW broker

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Engineering Applications of Bio-Inspired Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 1999)

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Knowledge reuse by means of ontologies now faces three important problems: (1) there are no standardized identifying features that characterize ontologies from the user point of view; (2) there are no web sites using the same logical organization, presenting relevant information about ontologies; and (3) the search for appropriate ontologies is hard, time-consuming and usually fruitless. To solve the above problems, we present: (1) a living set of features that allow us to characterize ontologies from the user point of view and have the same logical organization; (2) a living domain ontology about ontologies (called Reference Ontology) that gathers, describes and has links to existing ontologies; and (3) Reference Ontology as a source of its knowledge and retrieves descriptions of ontologies that satisfy a given set of constraints. (ONTO)2 Agent is available at http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/REFERENCE ONTOLOGY/

This work was partially supported by JNICT grant PRAXIS XXI/BD/11202/97(Sub-Programa Ciência e Tecnologia do Segundo Quadro Comunitário de Apoio)

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  1. Grupode reutilización. Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Esparia

    Julio César Arpírez & Asunción Gómez-Pérez

  2. Área de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos. Departamento de Informácica, Universidad de Extremadura, España

    Adolfo Lozano Tello

  3. Grupo de Inteligência Artificial. Departmamento de Engenharia Informática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

    Helena Sofia Andrade N. P. Pinto

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César Arpírez, J., Gómez-Pérez, A., Lozano Tello, A., Pinto, H.S.A.N.P. (1999). How to find suitable ontologies using an ontology-based WWW broker. In: Mira, J., Sánchez-Andrés, J.V. (eds) Engineering Applications of Bio-Inspired Artificial Neural Networks. IWANN 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1607. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100540

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