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Record Nr.

UNISA996466259503316

Titolo

Modular Ontologies [[electronic resource] ] : Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization / / edited by Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-642-01907-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 378 p.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 5445

Classificazione

DAT 703f

SS 4800

Disciplina

005.7

Soggetti

Application software

Information storage and retrieval systems

Database management

Software engineering

Data mining

Artificial intelligence—Data processing

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Information Storage and Retrieval

Database Management

Software Engineering

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Data Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes a collection of research achievements mature enough to provide a firm and reliable basis on modular ontologies. It gives the reader a detailed analysis of the state of the art of the research area and discusses the recent concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization. The 13 papers presented in this book were all carefully reviewed before publication. They have been organized in three parts: Part I gives a general introduction to the idea and issues characterizing modularization and offers an in-depth analysis of properties, criteria and knowledge import techniques for modularization. Part II describes four major research proposals for creating modules from an existing ontology either by partitioning an ontology into a collection of modules or by extracting one or more modules from the ontology. Part III reports on collaborative approaches where modules that pre-exist are linked together through mappings to form a virtual large ontology.