Context Dependency Management in Ontology Engineering: A Formal Approach Export

@incollection{citeulike:1468646, abstract = {A viable ontology engineering methodology requires supporting domain experts in gradually building and managing increasingly complex versions of ontological elements and their converging and diverging interrelationships. Contexts are necessary to formalise and reason about such a dynamic wealth of knowledge. However, context dependencies introduce many complexities. In this article, we introduce a formal framework for supporting context dependency management processes, based on the DOGMA framework and methodology for scalable ontology engineering. Key notions are a set of context dependency operators, which can be combined to manage complex context dependencies like articulation, application, specialisation, and revision dependencies. In turn, these dependencies can be used in context-driven ontology engineering processes tailored to the specific requirements of collaborative communities. This is illustrated by a real-world case of interorganisational competency ontology engineering.}, author = {De Leenheer, Pieter and de Moor, Aldo and Meersman, Robert}, citeulike-article-id = {1468646}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70664-9_2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-70664-9_2}, journal = {Journal on Data Semantics VIII}, keywords = {context, ontology, semantic}, pages = {26--56}, posted-at = {2007-07-20 11:39:45}, priority = {2}, title = {Context Dependency Management in Ontology Engineering: A Formal Approach}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70664-9_2}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1468646 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1468646 N2 - A viable ontology engineering methodology requires supporting domain experts in gradually building and managing increasingly complex versions of ontological elements and their converging and diverging interrelationships. Contexts are necessary to formalise and reason about such a dynamic wealth of knowledge. However, context dependencies introduce many complexities. In this article, we introduce a formal framework for supporting context dependency management processes, based on the DOGMA framework and methodology for scalable ontology engineering. Key notions are a set of context dependency operators, which can be combined to manage complex context dependencies like articulation, application, specialisation, and revision dependencies. In turn, these dependencies can be used in context-driven ontology engineering processes tailored to the specific requirements of collaborative communities. This is illustrated by a real-world case of interorganisational competency ontology engineering. JF - Journal on Data Semantics VIII EP - 56 TI - Context Dependency Management in Ontology Engineering: A Formal Approach SP - 26 KW - context KW - ontology KW - semantic AU - De Leenheer, Pieter AU - de Moor, Aldo AU - Meersman, Robert PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70664-9_2 ER -