Bibliography on INRIA-CNPq-OntoCompo (2017-06-06)
Camila Bezerra, Frederico Freitas, Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Zimmermann, An approach for ontology modularization, in: Proc. Brazil/INRIA colloquium on computation: cooperations, advances and challenges (Colibri), Bento-Conçalves (BR), pp184-189, 2009
Ontology modularization could help overcome the problem of defining a fragment of an existing ontology to be reused, in order to enable ontology developers to include only those concepts and relations that are relevant for the application they are modeling an ontology for. This paper presents a concrete tool that incorporates an approach to ontology modularization that inherits some of the main principles from object-oriented softwareengineering, which are encapsulation and information hiding. What motivated us to track that direction is the fact that most ontology approaches to the problem focus on linking ontologies rather than building modules that can encapsulate foreign parts of ontologies (or other modules) that can be managed more easily.
Camila Bezerra, Frederico Freitas, Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Zimmermann, ModOnto: A tool for modularizing ontologies, in: Proc. 3rd workshop on ontologies and their applications (Wonto), Salvador de Bahia (Bahia BR), (26 October ) 2008
During the last three years there has been growing interest and consequently active research on ontology modularization. This paper presents a concrete tool that incorporates an approach to ontology modularization that inherits some of the main principles from object-oriented software engineering, which are encapsulation and information hiding. What motivated us to track that direction is the fact that most ontology approaches to the problem focus on linking ontologies (or modules) rather than building modules that can encapsulate foreign parts of ontologies (or other modules) that can be managed more easily.
ontology, modularization, reuse, composition
Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Zimmermann, Frederico Freitas, Alignment-based modules for encapsulating ontologies, in: Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Vasant Honavar, Anne Schlicht, Frank Wolter (eds), Proc. 2nd workshop on Modular ontologies (WoMO), Whistler (BC CA), pp32-45, 2007
Ontology engineering on the web requires a well-defined ontology module system that allows sharing knowledge. This involves declaring modules that expose their content through an interface which hides the way concepts are modeled. We provide a straightforward syntax for such modules which is mainly based on ontology alignments. We show how to adapt a generic semantics of alignments so that it accounts for the hiding of non-exported elements, but honor the semantics of the encapsulated ontologies. The generality of this framework allows modules to be reused within different contexts built upon various logical formalisms.
ontology alignment, modular ontology, ontology engineering