The TW Wine Agent: A Social Semantic Web Demo (2009)
James R. Michaelis, Li Ding, Deborah L. Mcguinness
The Tetherless World (TW) Wine Agent extends the original Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory (KSL) Wine Agent to support collective recommendations on food-wine pairings. This is done to (1)...
Characterizing and Detecting Integrity Issues in OWL Instance Data (2009)
Jiao Tao, Li Ding, Jie Bao, Deborah L. Mcguinness
Abstract. We view OWL instance data evaluation as a process in which instance data is checked for conformance with application requirements. We previously identified some integrity issues raised by...
Policies for Public Domain Ontologies for the Intelligence Community (2009)
Elisa F. Kendall, Jay Jacobs, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Stephen Schwab
Numerous RDF vocabularies and OWL, KIF, and other knowledge representation language ontologies have been contributed to the growing body of ontologies available in the public domain over the last ten...
[6] G. Booch, J. Rumbaugh, and I. Jacobson. The Unified Modelling Language User (2008)
Alex Borgida, Ronald J. Brachman, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Lori Alperin
Transactions on Database Systems, 1(1), 1976. [11] Robin Cohen. Analyzing The Structure Of Argumentative Discourse. Computational
Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Karvounarakis, Aimilia Magkanaraki, Dimitris Plexousakis, Val Tannen, Information Integration, ...
Information Integration Issues in Scientific Applications (2008)
As research moves into its next phase as a distributed inter-connected multi-disciplinary global community, many issues in information access and integration become more challenging and...
14 OWL: a Description Logic Based Ontology Language for the Semantic Web (2008)
Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Christopher A. Welty
It has long been realized that the web could benefit from having its content understandable and available in a machine processable form. The Semantic Web aims to achieve this via annotations that use...
Increasing Explanation Motivations (2008)
� Systems are getting more complex � Multiple heterogeneous distributed information sources � Highly variable reliability of information sources � Interest in reuse of information systems...
Abstract Ontologies Come of Age (2008)
Ontologies have moved beyond the domains of library science, philosophy, and knowledge representation. They are now the concerns of marketing departments, CEOs, and mainstream business. Research...
IWBase: A Justification Metadata Infrastructure (2008)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Paulo Pinheiro Silva, Cynthia Chang
If users are expected to depend on answers from applications and services on the web, they need to have methods for asking for information that will increase their understanding and their trust in...
: A CLASSIC Application (2008)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Lori Alperin Resnick, Charles Isbell
Description logic-based configuration applications have been used within AT&T since 1990 to process over two and a half billion dollars worth of orders. While this family of applications[4] has...
Explaining Results from Information Retrieval and Integration (2008)
Honglei Zeng, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Richard Fikes
Information retrieval and integration systems typically must handle incomplete and inconsistent data. Current approaches attempt to reconcile discrepant information by leveraging data quality, user...
IWBase: Provenance Metadata for Understanding and Trusting Answer Justifications (2008)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Paulo Pinheiro Silva, Cynthia Chang
If users are expected to depend on answers from applications and services on the web, they need to have methods for asking for information that will increase their understanding and their trust in...
such a standard. OIL: An Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web (2008)
Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. Mcguinness
T h e S e m a n t i c W e b
Towards Checking Hybrid Proofs (2008)
Patrick J. Hayes, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Richard Fikes, Priyendra Deshwal
The distributed and heterogeneous nature of today’s applications such as the Web implies that a variety of agents may participate in answering questions. Since multiple agents with various...
Usability Issues in Description Logic Systems (2007)
Deborah Mcguinness Att, Deborah L. Mcguinness
The amount of use a description logic system receives depends on more than just the theoretical suitability of the system. Some critical determiners of usage have to do with issues related to the...
Usability Issues in Description Logic Systems (2007)
The amount of use a description logic system receives depends on more than just the theoretical suitability of the system. Some critical determiners of usage have to do with issues related to the...
Ronald J. Brachman, Alex Borgida, Deborah L. Mcguinness
Most recent key developments in research on knowledge representation (KR) have been of the more theoretical sort, involving worst-case complexity results, solutions to technical challenge problems,...
Inference Web: Portable Explanations for the Web (2007)
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how...
Inference Web: Portable and Sharable Explanations for Question Answering (2007)
{ dlm I pp} @ ksl.stanford.edu The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used,...
such a standard. OIL: An Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web (2007)
Dieter Fensel, Deborah L. Mcguinness
T h e S e m a n t i c W e b
FindUR: Knowledge-Enhanced Online Search (2007)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Harley Manning, Lori Alperin Resnick, Thomas W. Beattie
Increased usage of online search by non-logicians has increased the need for a more effective and friendlier search experience. Experienced users may make use of Boolean connectives, site structure...
Intelligence (IJCAI'91), pages 472--477, 1991. (2007)
Zakharyaschev Michael Zakharyaschev, Abiteboul Et Al, Serge Abiteboul, Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, ...
Applications, Volume 23, Number 2--9. [ Woods, 1975 ] William A. Woods. What's in a link: Foundations for semantic networks. In D. G. Bobrow and A. M. Collins, editors, Representation and...
Jérôme Euzenat, Chiara Ghidini, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Valeria De Paiva, Luciano Serafini, Pavel Shvaiko, ...
granted for educational or research use on condition that this copyright notice is included in any copy.
Jérôme Euzenat, Chiara Ghidini, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Valeria De Paiva, Luciano Serafini, Pavel Shvaiko, ...
granted for educational or research use on condition that this copyright notice is included in any copy.
Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection (2006)
Weitzner, Daniel J., Abelson, Harold, Berners-Lee, Tim, Hanson, Chris, Hendler, James, Kagal, Lalana, ...
Attempts to address issues of personal privacy in a world of computerized databases and information networks -- from security technology to data protection regulation to Fourth Amendment law...
Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection (2006)
Weitzner, Daniel J., Abelson, Harold, Berners-Lee, Tim, Hanson, Chris, Hendler, James, Kagal, Lalana, ...
Attempts to address issues of personal privacy in a world of computerized databases and information networks -- from security technology to data protection regulation to Fourth Amendment law...
Computing Trust from Revision History (2006)
Zeng, Honglei, Alhossaini, Maher A., Ding, Li, Fikes, Richard, McGuinness, Deborah L.
A new model of distributed, collaborative information evolution is emerging. As exemplified in Wikipedia, online collaborative information repositories are being generated, updated, and maintained by...
Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources (2006)
J. William Murdock, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Paulo Pinheiro Da, Chris Welty, David Ferrucci
The ubiquitous non-semantic web includes a vast array of unstructured information such as HTML documents. The semantic web provides more structured knowledge such as hand-built ontologies and...
Transparent accountable data mining: New strategies for privacy protection (2006)
Daniel J. Weitzner, Harold Abelson, Tim Berners-lee, Chris Hanson, James Hendler, Lalana Kagal, ...
Attempts to address issues of personal privacy in a world of computerized databases and information networks--from security technology to data protection regulation to Fourth Amendment law...
Investigation into trust for collaborative information repositories: A Wikipedia case study (2006)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Honglei Zeng, Li Ding, Dhyanesh Narayanan, Mayukh Bhaowal
As collaborative repositories grow in popularity and use, issues concerning the quality and trustworthiness of information grow. Some current popular repositories contain contributions from a wide...
Transparent accountable data mining: New strategies for privacy protection (2006)
Gerald Jay, Daniel J. Weitzner, Daniel J. Weitzner, Harold Abelson, Harold Abelson, Tim Berners-lee, ...
Attempts to address issues of personal privacy in a world of computerized databases and information networks--from security technology to data protection regulation to Fourth Amendment law...
Sathiamurthy, Muthuraman, Peters, Bjoern, Bui, Huynh-Hoa, Sidney, John, Mokili, John, Wilson, Stephen S, ...
Abstract Background Epitopes can be defined as the molecular structures bound by specific receptors, which are recognized during immune responses. The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource...
IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web (2005)
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro, Silva Deborah, ...
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems begin to rely on source...
Natalya F. Noy, Deborah L. Mcguinness
1 ¿Por qué desarrollar una ontología? 3 2 ¿Qué es una ontología? 5 3 Una simple metodología de ingeniería del conocimiento 6 4 Definición de las clases y de la jerarquía de clases 15
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Paulo Pinheiro, Silva J. William, Murdock David Ferrucci
As more systems rely on knowledge bases built from automatic and semi-automatic methods, it is becoming more important to provide solutions that not only answer questions but also provide information...
IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web (2004)
Zaihrayeu, Ilya, Da Silva, Paulo Pinheiro, McGuinness, Deborah L.
Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems begin to rely on source...
Web Explanations for Semantic Heterogeneity Discovery (2004)
Shvaiko, Pavel, Giunchiglia, Fausto, Da Silva, Paulo Pinheiro, McGuinness, Deborah L.
Managing semantic heterogeneity is a complex task. One solution involves matching like terms to each other. We view Match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g.,concept hierarchies...
Towards Explaining Semantic Matching (2004)
McGuinness, Deborah L., Shvaiko, Pavel, Giunchiglia, Fausto, Da Silva, Paulo Pinheiro
Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires some mapping between terms in the vocabularies. Matching applications generate such mappings. When the matching process...
Towards explaining semantic matching (2004)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Pavel Shvaiko, Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia, Fausto Giunchiglia, ...
Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires some mapping between terms in the vocabularies. Matching applications generate such mappings. When the matching process...
Towards explaining semantic matching (2004)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia
Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires mappings between them. Matching applications generate these mappings. When the matching process utilizes term meaning...
Web Explanations for Semantic Heterogeneity Discovery (2004)
Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia, Deborah L. McGuinness
Managing semantic heterogeneity is a complex task. One solution involves matching like terms to each other. We view Match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g., concept...
Web Explanations For Semantic Heterogeneity Discovery (2004)
Pavel Shvaiko, Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia, Fausto Giunchiglia, Deborah L. Mcguinness, ...
Managing semantic heterogeneity is a complex task. One solution involves matching like terms to each other. We view Match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g., concept...
IW-Base: Provenance Metadata Infrastructure for Explaining and Trusting Answers from the Web (2004)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Paulo Pinheiro Silva, Cynthia Chang
If users are expected to depend on answers from applications and services on the web, they need to have methods for asking for information that will increase their understanding and their trust in...
Trusting Answers on the Web (2004)
The Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how reliable the...
Explaining answers from the semantic web: The inference web approach (2004)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Paulo Pinheiro Silva
The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining answers from web applications. When applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how...
Explaining answers from the semantic web: The inference web approach (2004)
The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining answers from web applications. When applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how...
Also electronically available as CEUR Publication at (2004)
Volker Haarslev, Ralf Möller, Volker Haarslev, Ralf Möller, Carlos Areces, Diego Calvanese, ...
devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. The list of International Workshops on Description Logics can be found at
Infrastructure for web explanations (2003)
The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining knowledge provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how...
Registry-Based Support for Information Integration (2003)
In order for agents and humans to leverage the growing wealth of heterogeneous information and services on the web, increasingly, they need to understand the information that is delivered to them. In...
Infrastructure for web explanations (2003)
The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how...
Knowledge Provenance Infrastructure (2003)
Silva Deborah, Deborah L. McGuinness, Rob Mccool
The web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how reliable the...
Wine Agent: Semantic Web Testbed Application (2003)
Eric Hsu And, Eric I. Hsu, Deborah L. Mcguinness
The Wine Agent is a demonstration system that uses an underlying domain ontology to provide suitable wines for a given meal. In doing so it serves as a testbed, not only for the logical domain...
Combinable Proof Fragments for the Web (2003)
Web applications must deal with a rapidly evolving, distributed, heterogeneous environment of information and reasoning services. Many applications obtain information from multiple sources and thus...
Wine Agent: Semantic Web Testbed Application (2003)
Eric I. Hsu, Deborah L. Mcguinness
The Wine Agent is a demonstration system that uses an underlying domain ontology to provide suitable wines for a given meal. In doing so it serves as a testbed, not only for the logical domain...
Infrastructure for web explanations (2003)
The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining knowledge provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how...
Infrastructure for Web Explanations (2003)
The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining knowledge provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how...
OIL: An Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web (2001)
Fensel, Dieter, Horrocks, Ian, McGuinness, Deborah L., Patel-Schneider, Peter F.
Currently, computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points into a worldwide network of information exchange and business transactions.Support in the exchange of data, information,...
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology (2001)
Natalya F. Noy, Deborah L. Mcguinness
In recent years the development of ontologies—explicit formal specifications of the terms in the domain and relations among them (Gruber 1993)—has been moving from the realm of...
Description logics emerge from ivory towers (2001)
Abstract: Description logic (DL) has existed as a field for a few decades yet somewhat recently have appeared to transform from an area of academic interest to an area of broad interest. This paper...
Industrial strength ontology management (2001)
Aseem Das, Wei Wu, Deborah L. Mcguinness
Abstract. Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches,...
Description Logics Emerge from Ivory Towers (2001)
Deborah Mcguinness Stanford, Deborah L. Mcguinness
Description logic (DL) has existed as a field for a few decades yet somewhat recently have appeared to transform from an area of academic interest to an area of broad interest. This paper provides a...
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology (2001)
Natalya F. Noy, Deborah L. Mcguinness
In recent years the development of ontologies—explicit formal specifications of the terms in the domain and relations among them (Gruber 1993)—has been moving from the realm of...
An Environment for Merging and Testing Large Ontologies (2000)
Deborah L. Mcguinness, Richard Fikes, James Rice, Steve Wilder
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and Lycos), ecommerce (such as Amazon and eBay), configuration (such as Dell...
Usability Issues in Knowledge Representation Systems (1998)
The amount of use a knowledge representation system receives depends on more than just the theoretical suitability of the system. Some critical determiners of usage have to do with issues related to...
Matching in Description Logics: Preliminary Results (1998)
Franz Baader, Alex Borgida, Deborah L. McGuinness
Matching of concepts with variables (concept patterns) is a relatively new operation that has been introduced in the context of concept description languages (description logics), originally to help...
Knowledge Assisted Search (1997)
Deborah L. McGuinness, Harley Manning, Thomas W. Beattie
Web application demands for more intelligent search functionality provide many opportunities for applications of artificial intelligence techniques. Websites are encompassing more complex content and...
Explaining reasoning in description logics / (1996)
"Graduate Program in Computer Science."
Explaining Reasoning In Description Logics (1996)
Deborah L. McGuinness, Alexander Borgida, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Dissertation Director Alex, Er Borgida
Knowledge-based systems, like other software systems, need to be debugged while being developed. In addition, systems providing "expert advice" need to be able to justify their conclusions....
Explaining Subsumption in Description Logics (1995)
Deborah L. McGuinness, Alexander T. Borgida, Er T. Borgida
This paper explores the explanation of subsumption reasoning in Description Logics that are implemented using normalization methods, focusing on the perspective of knowledge engineers. The notion of...
Explaining Subsumption in Description Logics (1995)
Deborah L. McGuinness, Alex Borgida
Description Logic-based systems include extensive, complex reasoning components that may produce results that surprise users, yet these systems typically provide little or no explanation support. In...
Description Logic in Practice: A classic Application (1995)
Deborah L. McGuinness, Lori Alperin Resnick, Charles Isbell
entally evolving knowledge base; and 5. handle errors in a way that keeps the knowledge base consistent, but also provides useful information to the user. We will provide some examples in our domain...
Integrated Support For Data Archaeology (1993)
Ronald Brachman, Fern Halper, Peter G. Selfridge, Thomas Kirk, Loren G. Terveen, Alan Lazar, ...
Corporate databases increasingly are being viewed as potentially rich sources of new and valuable knowledge. Various approaches to"discovering" or "mining " such knowledge have...
Living With Classic: When and How to Use a KL-ONE-like language (1991)
Ronald J. Brachman, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Lori Alperin Resnick, Alexander Borgida
classic is a recently-developed knowledge representation system that follows the paradigm originally set out in the kl-one system: it concentrates on the definition of structured concepts, their...
CLASSIC: a structural data model for objects (1989)
Alexander Borgida, Ronald J. Brachman, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Lori Alperin Resnick
classic is a data model that encourages the description ofobjects not only in terms of their relations to other known objects, but in terms of a level of intensional structure aswell. The classic...
CLASSIC: a structural data model for objects (1989)
Alexander Borgida, Ronald J. Brachman, Deborah L. Mcguinness, Lori Alperin Resnick
classic is a data model that encourages the description of objects not only in terms of their relations to other known objects, but in terms of a level of intensional structure as well. The classic...
The CLASSIC Knowledge Representation System or, KL-ONE: The Next Generation (1989)
Ronald J. Brachman, Alexander Borgida, Deborah L. McGuinness, Lori Alperin Resnick
classic is a recently developed knowledge representation (KR) system, based on a view of frames as structured descriptions, with several important inferable relationships, including description...
Sathiamurthy, Muthuraman, Peters, Bjoern, Bui, Huynh-Hoa, Sidney, John, Mokili, John, Wilson, Stephen S, ...
Sathiamurthy, Muthuraman, Peters, Bjoern, Bui, Huynh-Hoa, Sidney, John, Mokili, John, Wilson, Stephen S, ...
Digital Libraries and Web-Based Information Systems
Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. McGuinness, Christopher Welty
It has long been realised that the web could benefit from having its content understandable and available in a machine processable form, and it is widely agreed that ontologies will play a key role...