Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization

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Heiner Stuckenschmidt Christine Parent

Modular Ontologies

Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization

Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
25 May 2009

Computing: general; Maintenance & repairs; Algorithms & data structures; Software Engineering; Databases; Data warehousing; Data mining; Information retrieval

Series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues

The growing emphasis on complexity concerns for ontologies has attracted signi cant interest from both the researchers' and the practitioners' communities in modularization techniques as a way to decrease the complexity of managing huge ontologies.

Researchhasproducedmanycomplementaryandcompetingapproaches, mainly with the goal of supportingpractitioners' methodologieswith sound and p- cisely de nedfoundationsand alternatives.

Existing prototypessubstantiate research results and experimental evaluations have been performed. Thus, a large body of work is available. This book has been designed to provide the reader with a detailed analysis of where we stand today and which concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization we can con dently rely on. The material for the book has been - lected from research achievements that are mature enough to be considered as a rm and reliable basis on which to inspire further work and to develop solutions in c- crete environments. The content of the book has been organized in three parts. Part I holds a general introductionto theidea andissuescharacterizingmodularization.

Thisisfollowedby three chapters that offer an in-depth analysis of properties, criteria and knowledge import techniques for modularization. The last chapter discusses one of the three approaches that implement the modularization idea. The two other approaches are covered in detail in parts II and III.

Edited by: Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: 2009 ed.
Volume: 5445
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 599g
ISBN: 9783642019067
ISBN 10: 3642019064
Series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
Pages: 378
Publication Date: 25 May 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Modularization Approaches.- to Part I.- An Overview of Modularity.- Formal Properties of Modularisation.- Criteria and Evaluation for Ontology Modularization Techniques.- On Importing Knowledge from Ontologies..- Modularity in Databases.- Partitioning and Extraction of Modules.- to Part II.- Extracting Modules from Ontologies: A Logic-Based Approach.- Structure-Based Partitioning of Large Ontologies.- Web Ontology Segmentation: Extraction, Transformation, Evaluation.- Traversing Ontologies to Extract Views.- Connecting Existing Ontologies.- to Part III.- Formal and Conceptual Comparison of Ontology Mapping Languages.- Ontology Integration Using ?-Connections.- Composing Modular Ontologies with Distributed Description Logics.- Package-Based Description Logics.

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