Download or read book Modular Ontologies written by Heiner Stuckenschmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a collection of research achievements mature enough to provide a firm and reliable basis on modular ontologies. It gives the reader a detailed analysis of the state of the art of the research area and discusses the recent concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization. The 13 papers presented in this book were all carefully reviewed before publication. They have been organized in three parts: Part I gives a general introduction to the idea and issues characterizing modularization and offers an in-depth analysis of properties, criteria and knowledge import techniques for modularization. Part II describes four major research proposals for creating modules from an existing ontology either by partitioning an ontology into a collection of modules or by extracting one or more modules from the ontology. Part III reports on collaborative approaches where modules that pre-exist are linked together through mappings to form a virtual large ontology.
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 Modular Ontologies written by Heiner Stuckenschmidt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a collection of research achievements mature enough to provide a firm and reliable basis on modular ontologies. It discusses the recent concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization.
Download or read book Modular Ontologies for Spatial Information written by Joana Hois and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2013 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial information describes types, relations, and various different aspects of space. This PhD thesis investigates how modular ontologies can model spatial information. Particularly, different perspectives on space are analyzed. A perspectival framework for spatial ontology modules is presented that allows the integration and combination of different facets of spatial information. This work discusses perspectives on space by distinguishing and categorizing quantitative, qualitative, abstract, domain-specific, and modal types of spatial information. Application examples are presented for spatial natural language interpretation, image recognition, and architectural design. The results are achieved by theoretical analyses of spatial domains as well as empirical and experimental findings from different disciplines related to the spatial domain. Technically, methods from formal ontology and ontological engineering are applied.
Download or read book Canadian Semantic Web written by Weichang Du and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of Web technologies for the distribution of an immense amount of data and knowledge has given rise to the need for supportive frameworks for kno- edge management. Semantic Web technologies aim at providing shared semantic spaces for Web contents, such that people, applications and communities can use a common platform to share information. Canadian Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications aims at contributing to the advancement of the Semantic Web by providing the most recent signi?cant - search on Semantic Web theory, techniques and applications in academia, industry and government in Canada and all over the world. It also enlightens possible - mantic Web research directions in future by reporting some works in-progress that presenton-goingresearchonprinciplesandapplicationsoftheSemanticWeb,while their implementation or deployment may have not been completed. This book consists of ten chapters. The chapters are extended versions of a - lected set of papers from the second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2009) and the twenty-?rst international Conference on Software En- neering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2009). CSWWS 2009 was held in Kelowna, British Columbia in May 2009. Since many of the challenging aspects of the research problems tackled in the Semantic Web area fall in the realm of Ar- ?cial Intelligence or employ of AI techniques, CSWWS 2009 was organized in - nd sociation with the 22 Canadian Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence.
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.
Download or read book Advances in Artificial Intelligence written by Sabine Bergler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2008, held in Windsor, Canada, in May 2008. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 5 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers present original high-quality research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and apply historical AI techniques to modern problem domains as well as recent techniques to historical problem settings.
Download or read book Modular Ontologies written by Oliver Kutz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Fifth International Worksh. Modularity has been and continues to be one of the central research topics in ontology engineering, still catching up with 40 years of related research in software engineering. The workshops on Modular Ontologies WoMO bring together researchers from dif
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 Database and Expert Systems Applications written by Norman Revell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications held in September 2007. Papers are organized into topical sections covering XML, data and information, datamining and data warehouses, database applications, WWW, bioinformatics, process automation and workflow, knowledge management and expert systems, database theory, query processing, and privacy and security.
Download or read book Formal Ontologies Meet Industry written by R. Ferrario and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of papers addressing the multi-shaped character of knowledge, new studies and applications in the field of ontology and semantic technology. The semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly central role in a networked, knowledge-centred economy and the need to encode information into computer systems has led to a bias towards Knowledge Engineering (KE) solutions as opposed to Knowledge Management (KM). Although the intersection between KE and KM has led to a general improvement of information systems, the overlap between these two fields has tended to eclipse interest in genuine knowledge processes. For this reason, the fourth FOMI workshop was held to coincide with the 10th European Conference of Knowledge Management (ECKM), with the explicit aim of bringing together KR and KM (sub)-communities, providing a platform for discussion of these topics. Subjects covered include: the evolution of ontologies in accordance with the evolution of the domain they are designed for; the study of the notions of functional composition and decomposition; modular ontologies for architecture; ontology infrastructure for electromagnetics; ontology of beliefs; enterprise modelling; the application of ontology-based methodologies and techniques to knowledge management issues; ontologies for standards and domain ontologies for biomedicine. The double focus on methodological and applicative issues represents the main feature of these FOMI 2009 articles. This comprehensive perspective will advance progress towards new frontiers in information systems and knowledge management, where research and development in formal ontology will play a leading role.
Download or read book Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies written by Jie Bao and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Twenty third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twentieth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference written by American Association for Artificial Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering IJITWE written by Ghazi I. Alkhatib and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Concepts Methods and Applications in Semantic Computing written by Olawande Daramola and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book provides a sound theoretical foundation for the application of semantic methods, concepts, technologies for practical problem solving offering original research on advanced concepts, methods, algorithms, technologies, and applications of semantic computing in real-world situations"--
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.
