Author:
Dan Wu
Affiliation:
School of Information and Communication Technology, Sweden
Keyword(s):
Ontology Integration and Merging, Non-contradictory Ontology Integration, Context, Rules.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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e-Business
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Enterprise Engineering
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Enterprise Ontologies
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Formal Methods
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Model-Based Reasoning
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Ontologies
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Simulation and Modeling
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
By studying ontologies in an ontology repository, context rules are developed to improve ontology integration result. A context rule contains conditions for identifying a context. These context conditions are described by, so called, context criteria, which are, e.g., author and domain of an ontology. When the conditions, in a rule, are met, the rule is fired and the contextual information, in the body of the rule, is inserted into the reasoner, which is used for ontology integration. An example shows the construction of a context rule. The rule is used for an ontology integration. The integration result is indeed improved comparing with integration without contextual information.