C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies Export

@inproceedings{Bouquet2003C-OWL, 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 result 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.}, author = {Bouquet, Paolo and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Harmelen, Frank and Serafini, Luciano and Stuckenschmidt, Heiner}, booktitle = {ISWC}, citeulike-article-id = {1689202}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/2bkbjnxx5r0a897w}, journal = {The SemanticWeb - ISWC 2003}, keywords = {context, d22, l3s\_context\_workshop, model, ontology, semantic}, pages = {164--179}, posted-at = {2007-09-24 12:02:08}, priority = {2}, title = {C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/2bkbjnxx5r0a897w}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - Bouquet2003C-OWL L3 - citeulike-article-id:1689202 N2 - 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 result 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. JF - The SemanticWeb - ISWC 2003 EP - 179 TI - C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies T2 - ISWC SP - 164 KW - context KW - d22 KW - l3s_context_workshop KW - model KW - ontology KW - semantic AU - Bouquet, Paolo AU - Giunchiglia, Fausto AU - Harmelen, Frank AU - Serafini, Luciano AU - Stuckenschmidt, Heiner PY - 2003/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/2bkbjnxx5r0a897w ER -