Ontologies as Theories

Marco A. Casanova, Angela Pinheiro, Jose Antonio F. Macedo, Eveline Sacramento, Vania M. P. Vidal

2013

Abstract

This position paper argues that certain familiar ontology design problems are profitably addressed by treating ontologies as theories and by defining a set of operations that create new ontologies, including their constraints, out of other ontologies. The paper first illustrates how to use the operations in the context of ontology reuse. It goes further and shows how to take advantage of the operations to compare different ontologies, or different versions of an ontology, and to design mediated schemas in a bottom up fashion. The discussion in this position paper is backed up by a tool that implements the operations and that offers other facilities to manipulate ontologies.

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A. Casanova M., Pinheiro A., F. Macedo J., Sacramento E. and M. P. Vidal V. (2013). Ontologies as Theories . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-60-0, pages 317-322. DOI: 10.5220/0004562603170322


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis13,
author={Marco A. Casanova and Angela Pinheiro and Jose Antonio F. Macedo and Eveline Sacramento and Vania M. P. Vidal},
title={Ontologies as Theories},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={317-322},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004562603170322},
isbn={978-989-8565-60-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Ontologies as Theories
SN - 978-989-8565-60-0
AU - A. Casanova M.
AU - Pinheiro A.
AU - F. Macedo J.
AU - Sacramento E.
AU - M. P. Vidal V.
PY - 2013
SP - 317
EP - 322
DO - 10.5220/0004562603170322