Authors:
Silvia Calegari
and
Davide Ciucci
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Keyword(s):
Concept modifiers, fuzzy logics, fuzzy ontologies, membership modifiers, KAON, ontology editor.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
Abstract:
Ontologies have proved to be very useful in sharing concepts across applications in an unambiguous way. Nowadays, in ontology-based applications information is often vague and imprecise. This is a well-known problem especially for semantics-based applications, such as e-commerce, knowledge management, web portals, etc. In computer-aided reasoning, the predominant paradigm to manage vague knowledge is fuzzy set theory. This paper presents an enrichment of classical computational ontologies with fuzzy logic to create fuzzy ontologies. So, it is a step towards facing the nuances of natural languages with ontologies. Our proposal is developed in the KAON ontology editor, that allows to handle ontology concepts in an high-level environment.