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Current methods of service discovery, using the same mechanism to describe both request and advertisement and does not take into account the asymmetry between the two. Service advertisement discovery is a complete description of descriptive, information-rich features, and service request description is concerned only with some of the characteristics of services, usually does not constitute a complete...
We describe an extensible framework for translating data models into ontology models. Initially, the framework addresses two types of source data models: the relational database (RDB) and object-relational database (ORDB) models. The derived ontology model is based on OWL. The framework extracts information about the source data models from the metadata maintained by the DBMS. The extracted metadata...
This paper explores the use of ontology based methods to determine the geographic locations of Chinese offset addresses. Offset addresses are those addresses which contain a natural language location description reference to another location. The study has two parts, 1) the definition of a geo-spatial ontology for Chinese addresses, and 2) the design of spatial computation rules to enable spatial...
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