Contextual ontologies motivations, challenges, and solutions

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Abstract

Contextual ontologies are ontologies that characterize a concept by a set of properties that vary according to context. Contextual ontologies are now crucial for users who intend to exchange information in a domain. Existing ontology languages are not capable of defining such type of ontologies. The objective of this paper is to formally define a contextual ontology language to support the development of contextual ontologies. In this paper, we use description logics as an ontology language and then we extend it by introducing a new contextual constructor. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.

ISBN

3540462910

ISSN

0302-9743

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Volume

4243 LNCS

First Page

168

Last Page

176

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Context, Description logics, Ontology

Scopus ID

33751357534

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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