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directly in a target language, they are omitting the minimal encoding bias
criterion defined by Gruber (1993).
• Most of the tools only give support for designing and implementing the ontologies,
but they do not support all the activities of the ontology life-cycle.
• Ontology developers may find it difficult to understand implemented ontologies
or even to build a new ontology.
Acknowledgments
The first author gratefully thanks the European Union under Grant GRD1-2001-40739
(the UPTUN Project) for supporting the investigation that we have documented in
this paper.
The UPTUN-project, “Cost-effective, sustainable and innovative upgrading methods
for fire safety in existing tunnels” is being carried out in the framework of the
“Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme” (project GRD1-2001-40739,
Contract G1RD-CT-2002-0766), with a financial contribution of the European
Community.
We also both gratefully thank Creative Consulting s.r.l. for the grant OASI (Ontologies
of Artefacts and Services to Industry).
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