A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: the role of formal ontology in the information technology
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Visualization of patent analysis for emerging technology
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Investigating ontology development for engineering design support
Advanced Engineering Informatics
OECD Patent Statistics Manual
Discovering competitive intelligence by mining changes in patent trends
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A survey of context modelling and reasoning techniques
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Ontology-driven analysis of UML-based collaborative processes using OWL-DL and CPN
Science of Computer Programming
Identifying new business areas using patent information: A DEA and text mining approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A computational framework for authoring and searching product design specifications
Advanced Engineering Informatics
How do we measure and improve the quality of a hierarchical ontology?
Journal of Systems and Software
Concurrent classification of EL ontologies
ISWC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
A patent quality analysis for innovative technology and product development
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Predicting reasoning performance using ontology metrics
ISWC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part I
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Patent databases contain large amounts of information about the inventions and metadata of corporate patents (such as the technological domain they belong to, their applicants, and inventors). These databases are available online but since they do not provide explicit information about the relationships between different patent metadata, it is not possible for computers to automatically process such relationships. Several patent ontologies have been proposed so far in order to provide patent knowledge bases with semantics by merging information from different databases and establishing a common vocabulary. However, previous ontology literature has paid limited attention to the representation of specific relationships among metadata and the design of reasoning procedures that would allow some information not explicitly specified in the databases or ontologies to be inferred. This article proposes a methodological approach for the definition of relationships and reasoning tasks for patent analysis by using patent ontologies, and provides a real illustration of its potential in the context of international flows of research knowledge. This declarative method is based on the formal definition of key patent analysis indicators (KPAIs). The case study analysis is relevant because global competition and the importance of multinational firms in the patent process have resulted in firms not only patenting on their domestic markets but also transferring their patents to other markets and developing patents in different countries. In this context, it is important to analyze the connections between the patenting processes and the international knowledge flows of research and development. More specifically, the paper illustrates the applicability of the proposed methodology by classifying patents into the five patterns of internationalization identified by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).