1. D. Fensel et al.: OIL in a nutshell In: Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management, Proceedings of the European Knowledge Acquisition Conference (EKAW-2000), R. Dieng et al. (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI, Springer-Verlag, October 2000.

    This paper provides a survey on OIL.

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  2. I. Horrocks et al.: The Ontology Inference Layer OIL
    This paper provides a detailed discussion on OIL.

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  3. M.C.A. Klein et al.: The Relation between Ontologies and Schema-Languages: Translating OIL-Specifications to XML-Schema In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-solving Methods, 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI-00, Berlin, Germany August 20-25, 2000.

    This paper compares OIL with XML schemas.

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  4. Jeen Broekstra, Michel Klein et al.: Adding formal semantics to the Web: building on top of RDF Schema

  5. In this paper we show how KR techniques can be coupled to RDF Schema, using OIL as an example.

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    See the resulting RDF Schema and an example OIL-RDFS ontology that uses this schema.

  6. Stefan Decker, Frank van Harmelen, Jeen Broekstra, Michael Erdmann, Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks, Michel Klein, Sergey Melnik: The Semantic Web - on the respective Roles of XML and RDF 


  7. Proposals aiming at semantic interoperability are the results of recent W3C standardization efforts, notably XML/XML Schema and RDF/RDF Schema. In this paper, we make the following claims:
    · A further representation and inference layer is needed on top of the currently available layers of the WWW.
    · To establish such a layer, we propose a general method for encoding arbitrary ontology representation languages into RDF/RDF Schema.
    · We illustrate the extension method by applying it to a particular ontology representation and inference language (OIL).

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  8. Stefan Decker, Dieter Fensel, Frank van Harmelen, Ian Horrocks, Sergey Melnik, Michel Klein and Jeen Broekstra: Knowledge Representation on the Web 

  9. To appear in: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2000).

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  10. D. Fensel et al.: A Unifying Framework for the Knowledge Web In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-solving Methods, 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI-00, Berlin, Germany, August 20-25, 2000.

    This paper compares OIL with UPML (an architecture for describing reasoning components on the web).

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  11. H. Stuckenschmidt: Using OIL for Intelligent Information Integration In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods at ECAI 2000, 2000.

    Additional note: You find the OIL models, used in the case study, at http://www.tzi.de/~heiner/OIL/ (all files are in plain OIL notation, i.e. there are no facts).

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  12. H. Stuckenschmidt and H. Wache: Context Modeling and Transformation for Semantic Interoperability In: Knowledge Representation meets Databases - Proceedings of the Workshop at ECAI 2000, 2000.

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  13. H. Stuckenschmidt et al.: Catalogue Integration: A Case Study in Ontology-Based Semantic Translation
    The aim of this paper is to bring together two current research activities carried out at the Free University of Amsterdam and the Center for Computing Technologies at the University of Bremen.

    Additional note: You find the OIL models, used in the case study, at http://www.tzi.de/~heiner/OIL/ (all files are in plain OIL notation, i.e. there are no facts).

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  14. Dieter Fensel, Frank van Harmelen, and Ian Horrocks: OIL: A Standard Proposal for the Semantic Web. Deliverable 0 in the European IST project OnToKnowledge.

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