Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Using Domain Knowledge on Population Dynamics Modeling for Equation Discovery
EMCL '01 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Machine Learning
Endurants and perdurants in directly depicting ontologies
AI Communications - Special issue on: Spatial and temporal reasoning
Spatio-temporal conceptual schema development for wide-area sensor networks
GeoS'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on GeoSpatial semantics
Foundations for an Ontology of Environment and Habitat
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
Dependencies between ontology design parameters
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
The use of foundational ontologies in ontology development: an empirical assessment
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications - Volume Part I
Using abstractions to facilitate management of large ORM models and ontologies
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
Transforming semi-structured life science diagrams into meaningful domain ontologies with DiDOn
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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EKAW'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
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Few ontologies in the ecological domain exist, but their development can take advantage of gained experience in other domains and from existing modeling practices in ecology. Taxonomies do not suffice because more expressive modeling techniques are already available in ecology, and the perspective of flow with its centrality of events and processes cannot be represented adequately in a taxonomy. Therefore, formal ontologies are required for sufficient expressivity and to be of benefit to ecologists, which also enables future reuse. We have created a formal mapping between the software-supported ecological modeling method and software tool STELLA and ontology elements, which simplifies bottom-up ontology development considerably and has excellent potential for semi-automated ontology development. However, the conducted experiments also revealed that ontology development for ecology is close to being part of ecological research that through the formalized representation of the knowledge more clearly points to lacunas and suggestions for further research in ecology.