The general objective of the thesis is to provide domain independent, and resource independent methods and tools for speeding up the ontology development proces

The Semantic Web is characterized by the existence of a very large number of distributed semantic resources, which together define a network of ontologies. Thes

The body of research in all aspects of Semantic Web development, design, and application continues to grow alongside new trends in the information systems commu

The complex information systems which have evolved in recent decades rely on robust and coherent representations in order to function. Such representations and