Ontology Design and Reuse with Conceptual Roles

Jakob Henriksson, Michael Pradel, Steffen Zschaler, Jeff Z. Pan

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb Reasoning and Rule Systems
Subtitle of host publicationSecond International Conference, RR 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31-November 1, 2008. Proceedings
EditorsDiego Calvanese, Georg Lausen
Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
PublisherSpringer
Pages104-118
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-88737-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-88736-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Oct 2008
EventThe 2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Karlsruhe, Germany
Duration: 31 Oct 20081 Nov 2008
Conference number: 2
http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Volume5341
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceThe 2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
Abbreviated titleRR 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityKarlsruhe
Period31/10/081/11/08
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