Knowledge Exploitation through Modeling, Navigation and Querying, an Ontology-Based Integrated Architecture

Knowledge management has received great and ongoing attention during the last decades. The amount of knowledge and the interest for knowledge exploitation has been the spark for numerous attempts and proposals concerning knowledge representation, storage, usage, querying, acquisition and deduction. Ontologies offer an intuitive and expressive tool for these objectives. In this paper we propose an integrative approach and we present a software tool architecture that supports dynamic knowledge representation and exploration in a simple yet expressive manner, offering advanced querying and navigation abilities supporting the goal of knowledge exploitation and development, without presupposing deep modeling experience.