Download or read book Advances in Modular Ontology Engineering written by Cogan Matthew Shimizu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modular ontology engineering is a methodology for producing highly reusable knowledge graph schema. Over the course of this dissertation, we outline a number of contributions that have improved the process to what we see today. These contributions fall within four categories: conveying meaning through schema diagrams, the composition of a modular ontology, the modular ontology engineering methodology, and modular graphical modeling. First, we created an improved method and tool for generating schema diagrams similar to those manually generated by humans and show that most of OWL, as it is used in real world ontologies, are expressible in this format. Next, we examined and improved the ontology design pattern development process. This was accomplished through the development of both patterns and modules, extensions to the ontology design pattern representation language, and a tool that significantly improves the usability of these annotations. This work culminated in MODL: a modular ontology design library, which is a distributable set of curated, well-documented ODPs, both novel and drawn from the ontology design pattern portal. These advances were combined, and building upon the state of the art, to create the Comprehensive Modular Ontology Design IDE (CoModIDE), which is a plugin for the industry-standard ontology editor, Protégé. Finally, as a culmination of the tool and the methodology, we evaluated CoModIDE, where it was shown to significantly improve outcomes for experienced and new ontology developers when developing modular ontologies. Altogether, these research topics, resulted in a methodology, that when executed, produced actually reusable, extendable, and adaptable ontologies.
Download or read book Advances in Ontology Design and Patterns written by K. Hammar and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of patterns in the context of ontology engineering for the semantic web was pioneered more than a decade ago by Blomqvist, Sandkuhl and Gangemi. Since then, this line of research has flourished and led to the development of ontology design patterns, knowledge patterns, and linked data patterns: the patterns as they are known by ontology designers, knowledge engineers, and linked data publishers, respectively. A key characteristic of those patterns is that they are modular and reusable solutions to recurrent problems in ontology engineering and linked data publishing. This book contains recent contributions which advance the state of the art on theory and use of ontology design patterns. The papers collected in this book cover a range of topics, from a method to instantiate content patterns, a proposal on how to document a content pattern, to a number of patterns emerging in ontology modeling in various situations.
Download or read book Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns Foundations and Applications written by P. Hitzler and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of ontologies for data and knowledge organization has become ubiquitous in many data-intensive and knowledge-driven application areas, in science, industry, and the humanities. At the same time, ontology engineering best practices continue to evolve. In particular, modular ontology modeling based on ontology design patterns is establishing itself as an approach for creating versatile and extendable ontologies for data management and integration. This book is the very first comprehensive treatment of Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns. It contains both advanced and introductory material accessible for readers with only a minimal background in ontology modeling. Some introductory material is written in the style of tutorials, and specific chapters are devoted to examples and to applications. Other chapters convey the state of the art in research regarding ontology design patterns. The editors and the contributing authors include the leading contributors to the development of ontology-design-pattern-driven ontology engineering.
Download or read book Advances in Pattern Based Ontology Engineering written by E. Blomqvist and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are the corner stone of data modeling and knowledge representation, and engineering an ontology is a complex task in which domain knowledge, ontological accuracy and computational properties need to be carefully balanced. As with any engineering task, the identification and documentation of common patterns is important, and Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) provide ontology designers with a strong connection to requirements and a better communication of their semantic content and intent. This book, Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering, contains 23 extended versions of selected papers presented at the annual Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP) between 2017 and 2020. This yearly event, which attracts a large number of researchers and professionals in the field of ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, covers issues related to quality aspects of ontology engineering and ODPs for data and knowledge representation, and is usually co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), apart from WOP 2020, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered by the papers collected here focus on recent advances in ontology design and patterns, and range from a method to instantiate content patterns, through a proposal on how to document a content pattern, to a number of patterns emerging in ontology modeling in various situations and applications. The book provides an overview of important advances in ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, and will be of interest to all those working in the field.
Download or read book Advances in Pattern Based Ontology Engineering written by Eva Blomqvist and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are the corner stone of data modeling and knowledge representation, and engineering an ontology is a complex task in which domain knowledge, ontological accuracy and computational properties need to be carefully balanced. As with any engineering task, the identification and documentation of common patterns is important, and Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) provide ontology designers with a strong connection to requirements and a better communication of their semantic content and intent.This book, Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering, contains 23 extended versions of selected papers presented at the annual Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP) between 2017 and 2020. This yearly event, which attracts a large number of researchers and professionals in the field of ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, covers issues related to quality aspects of ontology engineering and ODPs for data and knowledge representation, and is usually co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), apart from WOP 2020, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered by the papers collected here focus on recent advances in ontology design and patterns, and range from a method to instantiate content patterns, through a proposal on how to document a content pattern, to a number of patterns emerging in ontology modeling in various situations and applications. The book provides an overview of important advances in ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, and will be of interest to all those working in the field.
Download or read book Modular Ontology Modeling Meets Upper Ontologies written by Abhilekha Dalal and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology modeling has become a primary approach to schema generation for data integration and knowledge graphs in many application areas. The quest for efficient approaches to model useful and re-useable ontologies has led to different ontology creation proposals over the years. The project focuses on two major approaches, modeling using a top-level ontology, and the other is modular ontology modeling. The traditional approach is based on top-level ontology, and the strategy is to utilize ontology that is comprehensive enough to cover a broad spectrum of domains through their universal terminologies. In this way, all domain ontologies share a common top-level formal ontology in which their respective root nodes can be defined, and hence consistency is assured across the knowledge graph. Nevertheless, the most recent approach is quite different and is a refinement of the eXtreme Ontology Design methodology based on the ontology design patterns. Whole ontology is viewed as a collection of interconnected modules, and modules are developed around the classified fundamental notions according to experts' terminology or the use-case. Having developed modules in a fashion of divide and conquer, these modules are shareable and reusable among some other ontology if needed, and consequently, the ontology being FAIR is justified (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). Although, it has been argued that there are advantages to either paradigm, it is possible to have a combination of both approaches mentioned earlier, depending upon the use-case or the preferences of the ontology engineers. We provide an extension to the Protégé - based modular ontology engineering tool CoModIDE, in order to make it possible for ontology engineers to follow traditional, ad-hoc ontology modeling approach, alongside more modern paradigms such as modular ontology engineering. The project focuses on domain-level ontology developers or organizations dealing with ontology development, which may get help through the plugin in minimizing the tooling gap to unite paradigms and develop robust, flexible ontologies suitable to their needs. As a bridge between the more recently proposed modular ontology modeling approach and more classical ones based on foundational ontologies, it enables a best-of-both-worlds approach for ontology engineering.
Download or read book Content Ontology Design Patterns Qualities Methods and Tools written by Karl Hammar and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are formal knowledge models that describe concepts and relationships and enable data integration, information search, and reasoning. Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are reusable solutions intended to simplify ontology development and support the use of semantic technologies by ontology engineers. ODPs document and package good modelling practices for reuse, ideally enabling inexperienced ontologists to construct high-quality ontologies. Although ODPs are already used for development, there are still remaining challenges that have not been addressed in the literature. These research gaps include a lack of knowledge about (1) which ODP features are important for ontology engineering, (2) less experienced developers' preferences and barriers for employing ODP tooling, and (3) the suitability of the eXtreme Design (XD) ODP usage methodology in non-academic contexts. This dissertation aims to close these gaps by combining quantitative and qualitative methods, primarily based on five ontology engineering projects involving inexperienced ontologists. A series of ontology engineering workshops and surveys provided data about developer preferences regarding ODP features, ODP usage methodology, and ODP tooling needs. Other data sources are ontologies and ODPs published on the web, which have been studied in detail. To evaluate tooling improvements, experimental approaches provide data from comparison of new tools and techniques against established alternatives. The analysis of the gathered data resulted in a set of measurable quality indicators that cover aspects of ODP documentation, formal representation or axiomatisation, and usage by ontologists. These indicators highlight quality trade-offs: for instance, between ODP Learnability and Reusability, or between Functional Suitability and Performance Efficiency. Furthermore, the results demonstrate a need for ODP tools that support three novel property specialisation strategies, and highlight the preference of inexperienced developers for template-based ODP instantiation---neither of which are supported in prior tooling. The studies also resulted in improvements to ODP search engines based on ODP-specific attributes. Finally, the analysis shows that XD should include guidance for the developer roles and responsibilities in ontology engineering projects, suggestions on how to reuse existing ontology resources, and approaches for adapting XD to project-specific contexts.
Download or read book An Introduction to Ontology Engineering written by C. Maria Keet and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Ontology Engineering introduces the student to a comprehensive overview of ontology engineering, and offers hands-on experience that illustrate the theory. The topics covered include: logic foundations for ontologies with languages and automated reasoning, developing good ontologies with methods and methodologies, the top-down approach with foundational ontologies, and the bottomup approach to extract content from legacy material, and a selection of advanced topics that includes Ontology-Based Data Access, the interaction between ontologies and natural languages, and advanced modelling with fuzzy and temporal ontologies. Each chapter contains review questions and exercises, and descriptions of two group assignments are provided as well. The textbook is aimed at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level in computer science and could fi t a semester course in ontology engineering or a 2-week intensive course. Domain experts and philosophers may fi nd a subset of the chapters of interest, or work through the chapters in a different order. Maria Keet is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She received her PhD in Computer Science in 2008 at the KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Her research focus is on knowledge engineering with ontologies and Ontology, and their interaction with natural language and conceptual data modelling, which has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications. She has developed and taught multiple courses on ontology engineering and related courses at various universities since 2009.
Download or read book Modular Ontologies written by Oliver Kutz and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title page; Preface; Contents; Towards Ontology Use, Re-Use and Abuse in a Computational Creativity Collective; Ontology Modularity, Information Flow, and Interaction-Situated Semantics; The Modular Structure of an Ontology: An Empirical Study; Extracting and Merging Contextualized Ontology Modules; A Metric Suite for Evaluating Cohesion and Coupling in Modular Ontologies; Towards a Functional Approach to Modular Ontologies Using Institutions; Introducing Ontology Best Practices and Design Patterns into Robotics: USAREnv; Modular Upper-Level Ontologies for Semantic Complex Event Processing.
Download or read book Ontology Modeling in Physical Asset Integrity Management written by Vahid Ebrahimipour and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cutting-edge applications of, and up-to-date research on, ontology engineering techniques in the physical asset integrity domain. Though a survey of state-of-the-art theory and methods on ontology engineering, the authors emphasize essential topics including data integration modeling, knowledge representation, and semantic interpretation. The book also reflects novel topics dealing with the advanced problems of physical asset integrity applications such as heterogeneity, data inconsistency, and interoperability existing in design and utilization. With a distinctive focus on applications relevant in heavy industry, Ontology Modeling in Physical Asset Integrity Management is ideal for practicing industrial and mechanical engineers working in the field, as well as researchers and graduate concerned with ontology engineering in physical systems life cycles.
Download or read book Semantic Web Science and Real World Applications written by Lytras, Miltiadis D. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continual advancements in web technology have highlighted the need for formatted systems that computers can utilize to easily read and sift through the hundreds of thousands of data points across the internet. Therefore, having the most relevant data in the least amount of time to optimize the productivity of users becomes a priority. Semantic Web Science and Real-World Applications provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of semantic web science and real-world applications within the area of big data. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as artificial intelligence, social media monitoring, and microblogging recommendation systems, this book is ideally designed for IT consultants, academics, professionals, and researchers of web science seeking the current developments, requirements and standards, and technology spaces presented across academia and industries.
Download or read book Advances in Enterprise Engineering XV written by David Aveiro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2021, which was held online on November 12, 2021, and December 16-17, 2021. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific solutions, focusing on the design and engineering of enterprises. The goal of EEWC is to stimulate interaction between the different stakeholders, scientists as well as practitioners, interested in making Enterprise Engineering a reality. The 5 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The volume also contains 2 keynote papers.
Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by M. Donnelly and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex information systems which have evolved in recent decades rely on robust and coherent representations in order to function. Such representations and associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is now applied to fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, GIS, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the semantic web. Ontologies are increasingly employed in a number of complex real-world application domains. For instance, in biology and medicine, more and more principle-based ontologies are being developed for the description of biological and biomedical phenomena. To be effective, such ontologies must work well together, and as they become more widely used, achieving coordinated development presents a significant challenge. This book presents collected articles from the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies (FOIS), held in Graz, Austria, in July 2012. FOIS is a forum which brings together representatives of all major communities involved in the development and application of ontologies to explore both theoretical issues and concrete applications in the field. The book is organized in eight sections, each of which deals with the ontological aspects of: bioinformatics; physical entities; artifacts and human resources; ontology evaluation; language and social relations; time and events; representation and the methodological aspects of ontological engineering. Providing a current overview of developments in formal ontology, this book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the application of ontologies, and to anybody wishing to keep abreast of advances in the field.
Download or read book Applied Ontology Engineering in Cloud Services Networks and Management Systems written by Martin Serrano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metadata standards in today’s ICT sector are proliferating at unprecedented levels, while automated information management systems collect and process exponentially increasing quantities of data. With interoperability and knowledge exchange identified as a core challenge in the sector, this book examines the role ontology engineering can play in providing solutions to the problems of information interoperability and linked data. At the same time as introducing basic concepts of ontology engineering, the book discusses methodological approaches to formal representation of data and information models, thus facilitating information interoperability between heterogeneous, complex and distributed communication systems. In doing so, the text advocates the advantages of using ontology engineering in telecommunications systems. In addition, it offers a wealth of guidance and best-practice techniques for instances in which ontology engineering is applied in cloud services, computer networks and management systems. Engineering and computer science professionals (infrastructure architects, software developers, service designers, infrastructure operators, engineers, etc.) are today confronted as never before with the challenge of convergence in software solutions and technology. This book will help them respond creatively to what is sure to be a period of rapid development.
Download or read book Advanced Concepts Methods and Applications in Semantic Computing written by Daramola, Olawande and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic computing is critical for the development of semantic systems and applications that must utilize semantic analysis, semantic description, semantic interfaces, and semantic integration of data and services to deliver their objectives. Semantic computing has enormous capabilities to enhance the efficiency and throughput of systems that are based on key emerging concepts and technologies such as semantic web, internet of things, blockchain technology, and knowledge graphs. Thus, research that expounds advanced concepts, methods, technologies, and applications of semantic computing for solving challenges in real-world domains is vital. Advanced Concepts, Methods, and Applications in Semantic Computing is a scholarly reference book that provides a sound theoretical foundation for the application of semantic methods, concepts, and technologies for practical problem solving. It is designed as a comprehensive and reliable resource on how semantic-oriented approaches can be used to aid new emergent technologies and tackle real-world problems. Covering topics that include deep learning, machine learning, blockchain technology, and semantic web services, this book is ideal for professionals, academicians, researchers, and students working in the field of semantic computing in various disciplines, including but not limited to software engineering, systems engineering, knowledge engineering, electronic commerce, computer science, and information technology.
Download or read book Advanced Information Networking and Applications written by Leonard Barolli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ontology Engineering in a Networked World written by Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantic Web is characterized by the existence of a very large number of distributed semantic resources, which together define a network of ontologies. These ontologies in turn are interlinked through a variety of different meta-relationships such as versioning, inclusion, and many more. This scenario is radically different from the relatively narrow contexts in which ontologies have been traditionally developed and applied, and thus calls for new methods and tools to effectively support the development of novel network-oriented semantic applications. This book by Suárez-Figueroa et al. provides the necessary methodological and technological support for the development and use of ontology networks, which ontology developers need in this distributed environment. After an introduction, in its second part the authors describe the NeOn Methodology framework. The book’s third part details the key activities relevant to the ontology engineering life cycle. For each activity, a general introduction, methodological guidelines, and practical examples are provided. The fourth part then presents a detailed overview of the NeOn Toolkit and its plug-ins. Lastly, case studies from the pharmaceutical and the fishery domain round out the work. The book primarily addresses two main audiences: students (and their lecturers) who need a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on ontology engineering, and practitioners who need to develop ontologies in particular or Semantic Web-based applications in general. Its educational value is maximized by its structured approach to explaining guidelines and combining them with case studies and numerous examples. The description of the open source NeOn Toolkit provides an additional asset, as it allows readers to easily evaluate and apply the ideas presented.
