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FONTE - Factorizing ONTology Engineering complexity
AbstractBecause it is difficult to engineer a complex ontology with time, we here consider a method that allows for factorizing the complexity of the engineering process, FONTE (Factorizing ONTology Engineering complexity). FONTE divides the engineering task into building a time-less domain ontology and a temporal theory independently from each other. FONTE provides an operator Å that assembles the two independently developed ontologies into the targeted ontology. The assembly processThe assembly process comprises two main building blocks. First,the
specification of temporal aspects for a time-less domain ontology remains
dependent on the conceptualization of the In subsequent iterations the engineer decides whether to accept an automatically proposed task instance from the Task List. Alternatively, the user may take new initiatives and define and execute a new task instance from scratch. For manually defined task instances, a set of logical tests (Validate) are performed in order to detect the existence of any knowledge anomalies (e.g. circularity or redundancy). In contrast, the acceptance of a proposed task instance does not require further checks as the checks are tested for validity before the user sees them.
AuthorsSteffen Staab (AIFB/University of Karlsruhe) Jorge Santos (DEI/ISEP)
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ajs@isep.ipp.ptLast updated: Maio 14, 2008. |