The microbial taxonomy is based on the characteristics of microorganisms that can be objectively observed and measured. There are many scheme of microbial classification, but the latest is the three domain system and is the most accepted. Ontologies are the new form of knowledge representation that acts in synergy with agents and Semantic Web Architecture. Ontologies define domain concepts and ...

This paper assesses the incidence and contribution that mentoring has to the career development of retail managers. Previous research has identified the benefits that mentoring relationships have for the protégé, the mentor and the organisation, although none have compared the experiences and attitudes towards mentoring within the retail environment. Drawing on a sample of 132 retail managers i...

In this work we present RAT-OWL, a Protégé 4.3 Plugin for reasoning about typicality in preferential Description Logics. RAT-OWL allows the user to reason in a nonmonotonic extension of Description Logics based on the notion of “rational closure”. This logic extends standard Description Logics in order to express “typical” properties, that can be directly specified by means of a typicality oper...

In the traditional railway information system, the users have to create many queries to retrieve specific train information. The results of the queries are based on the syntactic nature of data. A semi-illiterate human being finds difficulty in reading the railway time table. This problem can be effectively handled through semantic technology. Semantic web, future web, will revolutionize the wo...