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Modular Ontologies

Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Heiner Stuckenschmidt

    1. Institut für Informatik, B6, 26, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

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  2. Christine Parent

    1. HEC ISI, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  3. Stefano Spaccapietra

    1. Database Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-IC, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5445)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Modularization Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Part I

      • Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra
      Pages 3-3

    3. An Overview of Modularity

      • Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra
      Pages 5-23

    4. Formal Properties of Modularisation

      • Boris Konev, Carsten Lutz, Dirk Walther, Frank Wolter
      Pages 25-66

    5. Criteria and Evaluation for Ontology Modularization Techniques

      • Mathieu d’Aquin, Anne Schlicht, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Marta Sabou
      Pages 67-89

    6. On Importing Knowledge from Ontologies.

      • Alexander Borgida
      Pages 91-112

    7. Modularity in Databases

      • Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, Esteban Zimányi
      Pages 113-153

  3. Partitioning and Extraction of Modules

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Introduction to Part II

      • Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra
      Pages 157-158

    3. Extracting Modules from Ontologies: A Logic-Based Approach

      • Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulrike Sattler
      Pages 159-186

    4. Structure-Based Partitioning of Large Ontologies

      • Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Anne Schlicht
      Pages 187-210

    5. Web Ontology Segmentation: Extraction, Transformation, Evaluation

      • Julian Seidenberg
      Pages 211-243

    6. Traversing Ontologies to Extract Views

      • Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen
      Pages 245-260

  4. Connecting Existing Ontologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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    2. Introduction to Part III

      • Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra
      Pages 263-265

    3. Formal and Conceptual Comparison of Ontology Mapping Languages

      • Saartje Brockmans, Peter Haase, Luciano Serafini, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
      Pages 267-291

    4. Ontology Integration Using ε-Connections

      • Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin
      Pages 293-320

    5. Composing Modular Ontologies with Distributed Description Logics

      • Luciano Serafini, Andrei Tamilin
      Pages 321-347

    6. Package-Based Description Logics

      • Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki, Vasant Honavar
      Pages 349-371
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Informatik, B6, 26, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Heiner Stuckenschmidt

  • HEC ISI, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Christine Parent

  • Database Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-IC, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Stefano Spaccapietra

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