| Abstract |
At TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) we work in close collaboration with businesses, governments and universities on innovations that improve the competitive strength of industry and the well-being of society in a sustainable way. We are active in many domains, from Traffic and Transport to Healthy Living and together with our partners we possess a lot of domain knowledge. Apart from applying this domain knowledge in our projects, we capture it in formal domain models (such as ontologies) and leverage it using tools, such as the TNO Knowledge Engine. The TNO Knowledge Engine utilizes ontologies to make working with knowledge more intelligent, human friendly, connected and secure. This talk will address the question of how domain knowledge, in the form of an OWL ontology, can help to integrate knowledge that resides in heterogeneous knowledge bases. The examples from the Defense and Smart Homes domain illustrate how a Prolog-like reasoner uses the ontology to orchestrate knowledge exchange between heterogeneous knowledge bases. Apart from that, we discuss the versatile role of graph patterns within the TNO Knowledge Engine and explain the InterConnect project in which VU and TNO collaborate on making the devices in our homes more interoperable. |