Publications related to the WebKB project

This is a subset of the chronologically-sorted publications of Dr. Ph. Martin.
To access a publication, click on its "author" header. For an overview of the main technical ideas, see the articles prefixed by a star in the list below. In the references of conference/workshop articles below, the normal font is used only for the articles which (in my view) best describe the results of my research: a 9 point font is used for the other articles.


  1. Martin Ph.A. (2023). Incremental Integration of Fragmented Knowledge Via a Shared Knowledge Base Edition Protocol: Basic Rules and Genericity wrt. Inference Engines. Proceedings of ICKG 2023, IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (pp. 126-133 ; https://doi.org/10.1109/ICKG59574.2023.00021 ; ISBN: 979-8-3503-0709-2 ; IEEE Xplore), Shanghai, China, December 1-2, 2023.

  2. Martin Ph.A. and Tanzi T.J. (2023). General Knowledge Representation And Sharing, with Illustrations In Risk/Emergency Management. Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), Volume 15, Issue 14 (July 2, 2023; DOI: 10.3390/su151410803) and Special Issue "Disaster Risk Reduction: In Support of the Sendai Framework and Improved Societal Well-being".

    Impact Factor: 3.3 in Sept. 2024, 3.9 in Sept 2023.  CiteScore (Scopus): 6.8 in Sept. 2024 (rank for Computer Sciences: 17/133 (Q1)), 5.8 in Sept. 2023.  Full open access.  No Article Processing Charge (APC): this interdisciplinary special issue was organised by the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction of the International Science Council (ISC) GeoUnions and members of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction as a result of their Seventh Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022). One of their major focus is the "building of risk knowledge", hence of techniques for organizing, sharing and exploiting this knowledge; these techniques are the focus of this article. This article is a strong extension of an earlier version in Springer's selected papers of ITDRR 2020, 5th international conference on "Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction".

  3. Martin Ph. and Tanzi T.J. (2021). General Knowledge Representation And Sharing For Disaster Management. Proceedings of ITDRR 2020 (Springer IFIP AICT 622, pp. 116-131, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81469-4_10), 5th IFIP Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 3-4th 2020, online July 31, 2021.

  4. Martin Ph., Corby O. & Faron Zucker C. (2019). Ontology Design Rules Based On Comparability Via Certain Relations. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2019 (LNCS 11702, pp. 198-214: 17 pages; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33220-4_15; hal-02279726), 15th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9-12, 2019.

  5. Martin Ph. (2018). Evaluating Ontology Completeness via SPARQL and Relations-between-classes based Constraints. Proceedings of IEEE QUATIC 2018 (pp. 255–263), 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Coimbra, Portugal, September 4-7, 2018.

  6. Martin Ph. & Jo J. (2018). Contraintes prescriptives compatibles avec OWL2-ER pour évaluer la complétude d'ontologies
    [associated extension and companion Web article: Relations-between-classes based Constraints and Constraint-based Ontology-Completenesses].
    Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information, vol. RNTI-E-34, pp. 23–34, proceedings of EGC 2018, 18ème conférence internationale sur l'Extraction et la Gestion de Connaissances (international conference on knowledge acquisition), Paris, France, January 22-26, 2018  (selection rate for such "long articles": 25%).

  7. Martin Ph. & Bénard J. (2017b). Creating and Using various Knowledge Representation Models and Notations. Proceedings of ECKM 2017 (pp. 624-631), 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-8, 2017.

  8. Martin Ph. & Bénard J. (2017a). Categorizing or Generating Relation Types and Organizing Ontology Design Patterns. Proceedings of KAM'17 (in IEEE Xplore and FedCSIS'17 proceedings, pp. 1109-1117; DOI: 10.15439/2017F146), 23rd IEEE conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2017.

  9. Martin Ph. & Bénard J. (2016b). Top-level Ideas about Importing, Translating and Exporting Knowledge via an Ontology of Representation Languages. ACM proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2016 (doi: 10.1145/2993318.2993324; pp. 89-92), Leipzig, Germany, September 12-17, 2016.

  10. Martin Ph. & Bénard J. (2016a). Deriving Binary Relation Types From Concept Types. Supplementary proceedings of ICCS 2016 (pp. 9-12), 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Annecy, France, July 5-7, 2016.

  11. Bénard J. & Martin Ph. (2015).  Improving General Knowledge Sharing via an Ontology of Knowledge Representation Language Ontologies. Chapter 23 (pp. 364-387: 24 pages) of CCIS 553: book from the Springer-Verlag Lectures Notes series "Communications in Computer and Information Science" (CCIS). Book title: "Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management".
    This book chapter is an extension of our "KEOD+KDIR 2014 best paper award" article (12 pages) listed below (selection rate: 12,9% -- 37 papers out of 287 submissions).

  12. * Martin Ph. & Bénard J. (2014). An Ontology for Specifying and Parsing Knowledge Representation Structures and Notations. Proceedings of KEOD 2014 (pp. 96-107, ISBN: 978-989-758-049-9), 6th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (the Website lists IEEE, OMG and ACM as institutional partners of this conference), Rome, Italy, October 21-24, 2014. Selected for the "KDIR 2014 best paper award". KEOD and KDIR (International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval) are joint conferences. Selection rate of "Full papers" at KEOD 2014: 18% (78 submissions).

  13. Martin Ph. (2012b). For a Semantic Web based Peer-reviewing and Publication of Research Results. Proceedings of KGCM 2012 (pp. 23-28), 6th International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management, Florida, USA, July 17-20, 2012. 

  14. Martin Ph. (2012a). Organizing Linked Data Quality Related Methods. Proceedings of IKE 2012 (pp. 376-382; ISBN: 1-60132-222-4), International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering  Nevada, USA, July 16-19, 2012.

  15. Martin Ph. (2011b). Some Knowledge Normalization Methods. Proceedings of Informatics 2011, Rome, Italy, July 20-22, 2011.

  16. Martin Ph. (2011a). Collaborative knowledge sharing and editing. International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS; ISSN: 1646-3692 - two issues per year; acceptance rate: 15%), Volume 6, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 14-29.

  17. Martin Ph., Conruyt N. & Grosser D. (2010). Learning, Identifying, Sharing. Proceedings of Bioidentify 2010 (pp. 65-70; Eds: Nimis P.L., Vignes Lebbe R.; ISBN: 978-88-8303-295-0 EUT), Paris, September 20-22, 2010.

  18. Martin Ph. (2010d). Collaborative Ontology Modelling. Proceedings of ICCP 2010 (pp. 59-66; ISBN: 978-1-4244-8228-3) IEEE 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 26-28, 2010.

  19. Martin Ph. (2010c). Collaborative ontology sharing and editing. Proceedings of Informatics 2010 (pp. 11-18; ISBN: 978-972-8939-19-9; acceptance rate in 2010: 14%), Freiburg, Germany, July 26-31, 2010.

  20. Martin Ph. (2010b). Protocols for Governance-free Loss-less Well-organized Knowledge Sharing. Proceedings of ECAI 2010 workshop on Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases (I-KBET 2010; pp. 51-56), Lisbon, Portugal, August 17, 2010.

  21. Martin Ph. (2010a). Ontology Repositories with Only One Large Shared Cooperatively-built and Evaluated Ontology. "Best paper" at the ORES (Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web) workshop of the ESWC 2010 (Extended Semantic Web Conference), Hersonissos, Crete, 31 May 2010, published by CEUR-WS (ISSN 1613-0073, CEUR-WS.org), Vol-596 (urn:nbn:de:0074-596-3), pp. 105-116.

  22. Martin Ph. (2009c). Towards a collaboratively-built knowledge base of&for scalable knowledge sharing and retrieval. HDR thesis (240 pages; "Habilitation to Direct Research"), University of La Réunion, France, December 8, 2009.

  23. Flater D., Martin Ph. & Crane M. (2009). Rendering UML Activity Diagrams as Human-Readable Text. Proceedings of IKE 2009 (pp. 207-213; ISSN: 1-60132-116-3), international conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Nevada, USA, July 13-16, 2009.

  24. Martin Ph. (2009a). Managing Knowledge to Enhance Learning. International Journal of Knowledge Management & E-Learning (ISSN 2073-7904), Volume 1, No.2, 2009, pp. 103-119.
    (This is a slightly enhanced version of the following conference article).

  25. Martin Ph. (2008). Use of Semantic Networks as Learning Material and Evaluation of the Approach by Students. Proceedings of OLDE 2008 (ISSN 1307-6884 pp. 429-438), International Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Vienna, Austria, August 13-15, 2008.

  26. Martin Ph. (2008a). Semantic Networks to Support Learning. Supplementary proceedings of ICCS 2008 (ISSN 1613-0073; pp. 115-130), 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008.

  27. Martin Ph. & Eboueya M. (2008). For the ultimate accessibility and re-usability. Chapter XXIX (14 pages) of the Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications and Technologies (IGI Global;  ISBN: 978-1-59904-861-1;  pp. 589-606), July 14, 2008.

  28. Martin Ph., Jo J. & Jones V. (2007). Cooperatively updated knowledge bases as an optimal medium to learn, publish, evaluate and collaborate. Proceedings B of ICUT 2007 (1st International Conference of Ubiquitous Information Technology; pp. 875-885), Dubai, February 12-14, 2007.

  29. Jones V, Jo J. & Martin Ph. (2007). Future Schools and How Technology can be used to support Millennial and Generation-Z Students. Proceedings B of ICUT 2007 (1st International Conference of Ubiquitous Information Technology; pp. 886-891), Dubai, February 12-14, 2007.
    (cited 90 times, according to Google Scholar in 2021)

  30. Martin Ph. & Eboueya M. (2007). Sharing and Comparing Information about Knowledge Engineering. "World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society" Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 5, Volume 4 (pp. 1089-1096; ISSN 1790-0832), May 2007.
    This journal article is an extension of the following refeered conference article:
    Martin Ph. & Eboueya M. (2007a). Toward a Cooperatively Built Ontology of Knowledge Engineering. Proceedings of CEA 2007 (Computer Engineering and Applications), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, January 17-19, 2007.

  31. Martin Ph., Eboueya M., Blumenstein M. & Deer P. (2006). A Network of Semantically Structured Wikipedia to Bind Information. Proceedings of E-learn 2006 (pp. 1684-1702), AACE Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 13-17, 2006.

  32. Martin Ph., Eboueya M., Jo J. & Uden L. (2006). Between too informal and too formal. Proceedings of KMO 2006, International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations (UM FERI; editors: M. Hericko, A. ZivKovic; pp. 38-47; ISBN: 86-435-0780-6), Maribor, Slovenia, June 13-14, 2006. 

  33. * Martin Ph., Blumenstein M. & Deer P. (2005). Toward cooperatively-built knowledge repositories. Proceedings of ICCS 2005, 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 3596, pp. 411-424), Kassel, Germany, July 18-22, 2005.
    (At this conference, I also organised the "Semi-formal Summaries" workshop and gave a talk at the CG Tools workshop).

  34. * Martin Ph. (2003). Correction and Extension of WordNet 1.7. Proceedings of ICCS 2003, 11th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 2746, pp. 160-173), Dresden, Germany, July 21-25, 2003.

  35. Martin Ph. (2003a). Knowledge Representation, Sharing and Retrieval on the Web. Chapter 12 (35 pages) of a book titled "Web Intelligence" (Springer;  editors: N. Zhong, J. Liu, Y. Yao;  ISBN 3-540-44384-3;  pp. 263-297), January 2003.

  36. * Martin Ph. (2002). Knowledge representation in CGLF, CGIF, KIF, Frame-CG and Formalized-English. Proceedings of ICCS 2002, 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 2393, pp. 77-91), Borovets, Bulgaria, July 15-19, 2002.

  37. Martin Ph. (2002a). How WebKB could contribute to PORT. Proceedings of PORT 2002, 2nd PORT workshop, first day of ICCS 2002.

  38. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2002). Manageable Approaches to the Semantic Web. "Practice & Experience" alternate track of WWW 2002, 11th International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 7-11, 2002.

  39. * Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2001). Large-scale cooperatively-built heterogeneous KBs. Proceedings of ICCS 2001, 9th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 2120, pp. 231-244), Stanford University, California, USA, July 30 to August 3, 2001.

  40. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2000). Conventions for Knowledge Representation via RDF. Proceedings of WebNet 2000 (AACE, isbn:1-880094-40-1), San Antonio, Texas, November 2000.

  41. Martin Ph. (2000). Conventions and Notations for Knowledge Representation and Retrieval. Proceedings of ICCS 2000, 8th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 1867, pp. 41-54), Darmstadt, Germany, August 14-18, 2000.

  42. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2000a). Knowledge Retrieval and the Word Wide Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems (and their applications), Volume 15, No 3, pp. 18-25, May/June 2000.

  43. Eklund P., Becker P. & Martin Ph. (2001). Update Semantics for Cooperative Ontologies. Position paper (2 pages) at SWWS 2001 (Semantic Web Working Symposium), Stanford University, California, USA, July 30 - August 1, 2001.

  44. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999). Embedding Knowledge in Web Documents: CGs versus XML-based Metadata Languages. Proceedings of ICCS 1999, 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 1640, pp. 230-246), Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999.

  45. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999a). WebKB and the Sisyphus-I problem. Proceedings of ICCS 1999 (Springer, LNAI 1640, pp. 315-333), Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, July 12-15, 1999.

  46. * Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999b). Embedding Knowledge in Web Documents. Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Volume 31 (Issue 11-16), pp. 1403-1419, February 1999.
    Also in the proceedings of WWW8 (pp. 324-341), 8th International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 1999.

  47. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999c). A Key for Enhanced Hypertext Functionality and Virtual Documents: Knowledge. Proceedings of the Workshop "Virtual Documents, Hypertext Functionality and the Web" (technical report UBLCS-99-10, pp. 35-40) at WWW8, May 11, 1999.

  48. Eklund P. & Martin Ph. (1998). WWW Indexation and Document Navigation Using Conceptual Structures. Proceedings of ICIPS 1998, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems (IEEE Press, pp. 217-221) Australia, August 4-7, 1998.

  49. Martin Ph. (1997). The WebKB set of tools: a common scheme for shared WWW Annotations, shared knowledge bases and information retrieval. Proceedings of ICCS 1997, 5th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 1257, pp. 585-588), Seattle, USA, August 4-8, 1997.


Two previous but somewhat related works:

  1. Martin Ph. (1997a). CGKAT: a Knowledge Acquisition Tool and an Information Retrieval Tool Which Exploits Structured Documents, Conceptual Graphs and Ontologies. Proceedings of ICCS 1997 (Springer Verlag, LNAI 1257, pp. 581-584), Seattle, USA, August 4-8, 1997.

  2. Martin Ph. (1996). Exploitation de graphes conceptuels et de documents structurés et hypertextes pour l'acquisition de connaissances et la recherche d'informations. Ph.D thesis, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France, October 14, 1996.