Authors:
Baowen Xu
1
;
Peng Wang
2
;
Jianjiang Lu
3
;
Dazhou Kang
2
and
Yanhui Li
2
Affiliations:
1
Southeast University; Jiangsu Institute of Software Quality, China
;
2
Southeast University, China
;
3
Southeast University; Jiangsu Institute of Software Quality; PLA University of Science and Technology, China
Keyword(s):
Semantic Web, Ontology management, Multiple ontologies
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Management
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Semantic Web Technologies
;
Services Science
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Ontologies are now ubiquitous in Semantic Web and knowledge representation areas. Managing multiple ontologies is a challenging issue including comparing existing ontologies, reusing ontologies, maintaining different versions, and so on. However, most previous multiple ontologies management work focused on ontologies maintenance, evolutions, and versioning. They ignored the very important point: exploiting the functions of multiple ontologies provide. This paper proposed a new framework for managing multiple ontologies based on the function-oriented perspective, and its goal is to bring multiple ontologies together to provide more powerful capabilities for the practical applications. The new multiple ontologies management architecture is more feasible and robust in the dynamic and distributed Semantic Web environment.