A METHOD FOR APPROXIMATION TO ONTOLOGY REUSE PROBLEM

Eleni Tsalapati, Giorgos Stamou, Giorgos Koletsos

2009

Abstract

We describe a methodology that approximates the safety condition in the integration of ontologies. Intuitively, the safety condition ensures that, after the reuse, the external ontology remains intact. It was recently proved that it is a problem of high complexity to examine whether this condition holds. In order to approximate the problem, we suggest a method by which the ontology designer that reuses concepts from an ontology network will be informed about the degree in which the safety is violated and according to this information she can choose the appropriate ontologies to reuse concepts from.

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Tsalapati E., Stamou G. and Koletsos G. (2009). A METHOD FOR APPROXIMATION TO ONTOLOGY REUSE PROBLEM . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 416-419. DOI: 10.5220/0002296304160419


in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod09,
author={Eleni Tsalapati and Giorgos Stamou and Giorgos Koletsos},
title={A METHOD FOR APPROXIMATION TO ONTOLOGY REUSE PROBLEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={416-419},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002296304160419},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - A METHOD FOR APPROXIMATION TO ONTOLOGY REUSE PROBLEM
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Tsalapati E.
AU - Stamou G.
AU - Koletsos G.
PY - 2009
SP - 416
EP - 419
DO - 10.5220/0002296304160419