Asymmetric and Context-Dependent Semantic Similarity among Ontology Instances -- Query Relaxation in RDF -- A Fine-Grained Approach to Resolving Unsatisfiable Ontologies -- Deploying Semantic Web Services-Based Applications in the e-Government Domain -- Linking Data to Ontologies -- Context Representation in Domain Ontologies and Its Use for Semantic Integration of Data -- Semantically Processing Parallel Colour Descriptions -- A Cooperative Approach for Composite Ontology Mapping.

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