Abstract
Ontologies are already used in the life sciences and the Semantic Web, but are expected to be deployed in many other areas in the near future---for example, in software development. As the use of ontologies becomes commonplace, they will be constructed more frequently and also become more complex. To cope with this issue, modularization paradigms and reuse techniques must be defined for ontologies and supported by ontology languages. In this paper, we propose the use of roles from conceptual modeling for this purpose, and show how they can be used to define ontological reuse units and enable modularization. We present role-based ontologies as an extension of standard ontologies and define their semantics through a reduction to standard Description Logics, such that existing reasoners can be used.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Web Reasoning and Rule Systems |
Subtitle of host publication | Second International Conference, RR 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31-November 1, 2008. Proceedings |
Editors | Diego Calvanese, Georg Lausen |
Place of Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 104-118 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-540-88737-9 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-540-88736-2 |
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Publication status | Published - 17 Oct 2008 |
Event | The 2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 31 Oct 2008 → 1 Nov 2008 Conference number: 2 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008/ |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg |
Volume | 5341 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | The 2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems |
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Abbreviated title | RR 2008 |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Karlsruhe |
Period | 31/10/08 → 1/11/08 |
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