Publications

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2008

V.Tamma and T. R. Payne : Is a Semantic Web Agent a Knowledge-Savvy Agent? IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(4), July/August 2008

C. van Aart and V. Tamma: Agent Mediated Provision of Insurance Services -- Two Case Studies: Fraud and Repairs. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, ICEC 08, Innsbruck, Austria, 2008 (Invited Paper)

I. Blacoe, I. Palmisano, V. Tamma and L. Iannone: QuestSemantics - Intelligent Search and Retrieval of Business Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 5th Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2008), ECAI 2008, Patrasso, Greece, 2008.

V. Tamma: Do you speak my language? Challenges of knowledge engineering in open environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE 1st International Conference on Information Technology, Gdansk, Poland, 2008. (Invited Paper)

P. Doran, I. Palmisano, and V. Tamma: SOMET: Algorithm and Tool for SPARQL Based Ontology Module Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2008 ESWC International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity (WORM-08), Tenerife, Spain, 2008

2007

S. Paurobally, V. Tamma, M. Wooldridge. A Framework for Web service negotiation. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 2(4), November 2007

P. Doran, V. Tamma, L. Iannone: Ontology Module Extraction for Ontology Reuse: An Ontology Engineering Perspective. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Lisbon, Portugal.

M. d'Aquin, P. Doran, E. Motta, V. Tamma: Towards a Parametric Ontology Modularization Framework Based on Graph Transformation. In 2nd International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMo 2007), K-CAP 2007, British Columbia, Canada.

S. Paurobally, V. Tamma, M. Wooldridge, C. van Aart, and P. van Hapert: Web Service Negotiation in an Insurance Grid. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

L. Laera, I. Blacoe, V. Tamma, T. Payne, J. Euzenat, and T. Bench-Capon: Argumentation over Ontology Correspondences in MAS. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

2006

L. Laera, V. Tamma, J. Euzenat, T. Bench-Capon, and T. Payne. Arguing over ontology alignments. In Proceedings of the ISWC-06 Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006).Athens, GA, USA, November 2006.

L. Laera, V. Tamma, J. Euzenat, T. Bench-Capon, and T. Payne. Reaching agreement over ontology alignments. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), Athens, GA, USA, November 2006

L. Laera, V. Tamma, T. Bench-Capon, and J. Euzenat. Agent-based argumentation for Ontology Alignmnent. In Proceedings of the ECAI 2006 workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2006), Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2006

T. Moyaux, B. Lithgow Smith, S. Paurobally, V. Tamma, and M. Wooldridge. Towards Service-Oriented Ontology-Based Coordination. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, September 2006

2005

J. Cantais, D. Dominguez, V. Gigante, L. Laera, and V. Tamma. An example of food ontology for diabetes control. In Proceedings of the ISWC 2005 workshop on Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web, Galway, Ireland, November 2005

L. Laera, V. Tamma, and T. Bench-Capon. SweetProlog: A System to Integrate Ontologies and Rules. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) (Poster), Galway, Ireland, November 2005

V. Tamma, I. Blacoe, B. Lithgow Smith, and M. Wooldridge. Introducing Autonomic Behaviour in Semantic Web Agents. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), Galway, Ireland, November 2005

V. Tamma, C. van Aart, T. Moyaux, S. Paurobally, B. Lithgow Smith, and M. Wooldridge. An Ontological Framework for Dynamic Coordination. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), Galway, Ireland, November 2005

S. Paurobally, V. Tamma and M. Wooldridge. Cooperation and Agreement between Semantic Web Services. W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services, Innsbruck, Austria, June 2005

V. Tamma, S. Cranefield, T. Finin, S. Willmott (Eds). Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences. Birkauser-Springer

V. Tamma, S. Phelps, I. Dickinson, and M.Wooldridge. Ontologies for supporting negotiation in e-commerce. Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, 18(2):223-236, March 2005

2004

S. Phelps, V. Tamma, M. Wooldridge, and I. Dickinson. Toward Open Negotiation. In IEEE Internet Computing, 8(2):70-75, 2004

V. Tamma, I. Blacoe, B. Lithgow Smith, and M. Wooldridge. SERSE: surfing the Semantic Web with Esperonto. In Proceedings of the AAMAS 2004 workshop on Challenges in the coordination of large scale multi-agent systems

L. Laera, V. Tamma, T. Bench-Capon, and G. Semeraro. SweetProlog: A system to integrate ontologies and rules. In Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, Proceedings of the 3rd RuleML workshop, LNCS 3323, 188-193.

V. Tamma, I. Blacoe, B. Lithgow Smith and M. Wooldridge. SERSE: searching for Semantic Web Content. In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2004, Valencia, Spain, August 2004

V. Tamma, I. Blacoe, B. Lithgow Smith and M. Wooldridge. SERSE: searching for digital content in Esperonto. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004, Whittlebury Hall, UK, October 2004

2003

V. Tamma, M. Wooldridge, I. Blacoe, and A. Persidis. Retrieval of Scientific data in Esperonto. In Proceedings of the ISWC 03 workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data, Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003

T.J.M. Bench-Capon and G. Malcolm, 1999: Semantics for Interoperability. Proceedings of DEXA 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2736. Springer, Berlin. pp 703-712.

2002

V. Tamma, and T. Bench-Capon, 2002: Attribute meta-properties for formal ontological analysis. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2002, Siguenza, Spain, 1-3 October 2002.

V. Tamma, M. Wooldridge, and I. Dickinson, 2002: An ontology for automated negotiation. In Proceedings of the international workshop on ontologies in agent systems (OAS 02), to be held at the AAMAS 02 conference, Bologna, Italy.

V. Tamma, M. Wooldridge, and I. Dickinson, 2002: An ontology based approach to automated negotiation. In Proceedings of the IV workshop on agent mediated electronic commerce (AMEC IV), held at the AAMAS 02 conference, Bologna, Italy.

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2002: Attribute meta-properties for knowledge sharing. In Proceedings of the ECAI 02 workshop on ontologies and semantic interoperability, Lyon, France.

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2002: An ontology model to facilitate knowledge sharing in multi-agent systems. In Knowledge Engineering Review, 17(1), 41-60.

V. Tamma, 2002: An Ontology Model supporting Multiple Ontologies for Knowledge sharing. PhD Thesis, The University of Liverpool. (Zipped pdf file).

2001

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2001: An enriched knowledge model driven by formal ontological analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems - FOIS 2001. Ogunquit, Maine, USA, October 17-19, 2001.

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2001:Characterising concept's properties in ontologies. In Esposito, F. (Ed.), Proceedings of the "7mo Congresso della Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale - AI*IA 2001", Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2175. Bari, Italy, September 25-28, 2001.

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2001: A conceptual model to facilitate knowledge sharing in multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents 2001 Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems (OAS 2001). Montreal, May, 29, 2001, pp. 69-76. Best paper of the workshop.

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2001: A knowledge model to support inconsistency management when reasoning with shared knowledge. In Proceedings of the IJCAI'01 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing.

2000

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2000: Supporting inheritance mechanisms in ontology representation. In Dieng, R., and Corby, O., (Eds), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'2000). Juan-Les-Pins, France, October 2-6, 2000, Spring-Verlag LNAI 1937, pp. 140-155.

V. Tamma, and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 2000: Supporting different inheritance mechanisms in ontology representation. In Benjamins, R., Gomez-Perez, A., Guarino, N., and Uschold, M., eds, Proceedings of the ECAI-2000 Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods, Berlin, Germany, August 21-22, 2000, pp. 18.1-18.4.

V. Tamma, P.R.S. Visser, D. Malerba, and D.M. Jones, 2000: Computer Assisted Ontology clustering for Knowledge sharing. In Proceedings of the ECML'2000/ML net Workshop on Machine Learning in the New Information Age, Barcelona, Spain, May 30, 2000, pp. 75-83,.

1999

P.R.S. Visser, and V. Tamma, 1999: An Experience with Ontology-based Agent Clustering. In Proceedings of the IJCAI 99 Workshop on Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods: Lessons Learned and Future Trends, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2, 1999, pp. 12-1 - 12-13.

P.R.S. Visser, and V. Tamma, 1999: An Experience with Ontology Clustering for Information Integration. In Proceedings of the IJCAI 99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration, Stockholm, Sweden, July 31, 1999

Z. Cui, V. Tamma and F. Bellifemine, 1999: Ontology Management in Virtual Enterprises. BT Technology Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 98-107.

T.J.M. Bench-Capon and G. Malcolm, 1999: Formalising Ontologies and Their Relations. Proceedings of Database and Expert Systems Applications 99, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1677, Springer, Berlin, 1999, pp 250-259.

T.J.M. Bench-Capon and D.M. Jones, 1999: PRONTO - Ontology Based Evaluation of Knowledge Based Systems. A. Vermesan and F, Coenen (eds) Validation and Verification of Knowledge Based Systems, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1999.

1998

V. Tamma and P.R.S.Visser, 1998: Integration of Heterogeneous Sources: Towards a Framework for comparing Techniques. Proceedings of the "6 Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA), Workshop su Strumenti di organizzazione ed accesso intelligente per informazioni eterogenee", Padua, 23-25 September 1998, pp. 89-93.

P.R.S. Visser, D.M. Jones, T.J.M. Bench-Capon and M.J.R. Shave, 1998: Assessing Heterogeneity by Classifying Ontology Mismatches, Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of FOIS'98, Trento, Italy, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1998, pp148-162.

T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 1998: The Role of Ontologies in the Verification and Validation of Knowledge Based Systems. Proceedings of 9th DEXA Workshop, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, 1998, pp64-69.

D.M. Jones, T.J.M. Bench-Capon and P.R.S. Visser, 1998: Methodologies for Ontology Development. Proceedings of IFIP XV IT&KNOWS'98, Budapest, Hungary, International Federation for Information Processing, 1998, pp62-75.

P.R.S. Visser and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 1998: Ontologies in the Design of Legal Information Systems; Towards a Library of Legal Domain Ontologies. Conference on Applied Ontology, Buffalo University, NY, 1998, pp76-85.

1997

P.R.S. Visser, D.M. Jones, T.J.M. Bench-Capon and M.J.R Shav, 1997: An Analysis of Ontology Mismatches: Heterogeneity versus Interoperability. AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium on Ontological Engineering, Stanford, 1997, pp164-172.

P.R.S. Visser and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 1997: Open Texture and Ontologies in Legal Information Systems. Eighth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, IEEE Press: Los Alamitos, 1997, pp192-197.

T.J.M. Bench-Capon and P.R.S. Visser, 1997: Ontologies in Legal Information Systems: The Need for Explicit Specifications of Domain Conceptualisations. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on AI and Law, ACM Press New York, 1997, pp132-141.

P.R.S. Visser and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 1997: A Comparison of Two Legal Ontologies. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Ontologies, Melbourne, 1997, pp37-45.

1996

P.R.S. Visser and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 1996: On the Reusability of Ontologies in Knowledge System Design. Proceedings of The Seventh International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, 1996, pp256-61.

P.R.S. Visser and T.J.M. Bench-Capon, 1996: The Formal Specification of a Legal Ontology. Proceedings of JURIX-96, Tilburg University Press, 1996, pp15-24.

T.J.M. Bench-Capon and P.R.S. Visser, 1996: Deep Models, Ontologies and Legal Knowledge Based Systems. Proceedings of JURIX-96, Tilburg University Press, 1996, pp1-13.