TY - GEN
T1 - Ontology design and reuse with conceptual roles
AU - Henriksson, Jakob
AU - Pradel, Michael
AU - Zschaler, Steffen
AU - Pan, Jeff Z.
PY - 2008/12/8
Y1 - 2008/12/8
N2 - Ontologies are already used in the life sciences and the Semantic Web, but are expected to be deployed in many other areas in the near future-for example, in software development. As the use of ontologies becomes commonplace, they will be constructed more frequently and also become more complex. To cope with this issue, modularization paradigms and reuse techniques must be defined for ontologies and supported by ontology languages. In this paper, we propose the use of roles from conceptual modeling for this purpose, and show how they can be used to define ontological reuse units and enable modularization. We present role-based ontologies as an extension of standard ontologies and define their semantics through a reduction to standard Description Logics, such that existing reasoners can be used.
AB - Ontologies are already used in the life sciences and the Semantic Web, but are expected to be deployed in many other areas in the near future-for example, in software development. As the use of ontologies becomes commonplace, they will be constructed more frequently and also become more complex. To cope with this issue, modularization paradigms and reuse techniques must be defined for ontologies and supported by ontology languages. In this paper, we propose the use of roles from conceptual modeling for this purpose, and show how they can be used to define ontological reuse units and enable modularization. We present role-based ontologies as an extension of standard ontologies and define their semantics through a reduction to standard Description Logics, such that existing reasoners can be used.
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UR - http://software-lab.org/publications/rr2008.pdf
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-88737-9-9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-88737-9-9
M3 - Published conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57049138233
SN - 3540887369
SN - 9783540887362
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 104
EP - 118
BT - Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Second International Conference, RR 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2008
Y2 - 31 October 2008 through 1 November 2008
ER -