Ontology Development by Reuse

This chapter presents methodological guidelines that allow engineers to reuse generic ontologies. This kind of ontologies represents notions generic across many fields, (is part of, temporal interval, etc.). The guidelines helps the developer (a) to identify the type of generic ontology to be reused...

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Published inOntology Engineering in a Networked World pp. 147 - 170
Main Authors Fernández-López, Mariano, Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen, Gómez-Pérez, Asunción
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Development Team
Domain Ontology
Generic Ontology
Implementation Language
Ontology Development
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Summary:This chapter presents methodological guidelines that allow engineers to reuse generic ontologies. This kind of ontologies represents notions generic across many fields, (is part of, temporal interval, etc.). The guidelines helps the developer (a) to identify the type of generic ontology to be reused, (b) to find out the axioms and definitions that should be reused and (c) to adapt and integrate the generic ontology selected in the domain ontology to be developed. For each task of the methodology, a set of heuristics with examples are presented. We hope that after reading this chapter, you would have acquired some basic ideas on how to take advantage of the great deal of well-founded explicit knowledge that formalizes generic notions such as time concepts and the part of relation.
ISBN:3642247938
9783642247934
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-24794-1_7