Ontologies are shared models of a domain that encode a view which is common to a set of different parties. Contexts are local models that encode a party’s subjective view of a domain. In this paper we show how ontologies can be contextualized, thus acquiring certain useful properties that a pure shared approach cannot provide. We say that an ontology is contextualized or, also, that it is a contextual ontology, when its contents are kept local, and therefore not shared with other ontologies, and mapped with the contents of other ontologies via explicit (context) mappings. The results is Context OWL (C-OWL), a language whose syntax and semantics have been obtained by extending the OWL syntax and semantics to allow for the representation of contextual ontologies.

Contextualizing Ontologies / Bouquet, Paolo; Serafini, Luciano; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner; van Harmelen, Frank; Giunchiglia, Fausto. - ELETTRONICO. - (2004).

Contextualizing Ontologies

Bouquet, Paolo;Serafini, Luciano;Giunchiglia, Fausto
2004-01-01

Abstract

Ontologies are shared models of a domain that encode a view which is common to a set of different parties. Contexts are local models that encode a party’s subjective view of a domain. In this paper we show how ontologies can be contextualized, thus acquiring certain useful properties that a pure shared approach cannot provide. We say that an ontology is contextualized or, also, that it is a contextual ontology, when its contents are kept local, and therefore not shared with other ontologies, and mapped with the contents of other ontologies via explicit (context) mappings. The results is Context OWL (C-OWL), a language whose syntax and semantics have been obtained by extending the OWL syntax and semantics to allow for the representation of contextual ontologies.
2004
Trento, Italia
Università degli Studi di Trento. DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Contextualizing Ontologies / Bouquet, Paolo; Serafini, Luciano; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner; van Harmelen, Frank; Giunchiglia, Fausto. - ELETTRONICO. - (2004).
Bouquet, Paolo; Serafini, Luciano; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner; van Harmelen, Frank; Giunchiglia, Fausto
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