Modular ontologies : concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization /

Modular ontologies : concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:	English
Series:	Lecture notes in computer science, 0302-9743 ; 5445. State-of-the-art survey LNCS sublibrary: SL 1 - Theoretical computer science and general issues Lecture notes in computer science ; 5445. Lecture notes in computer science. State-of-the-art survey. LNCS sublibrary. SL 1, Theoretical computer science and general issues.
Subject:	Ontologies (Information retrieval) Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11072749

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Other authors / contributors:	Stuckenschmidt, Heiner. Parent, Christine. Spaccapietra, S.
ISBN:	9783642019074 3642019072 9783642019067 3642019064
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Modular ontologies. Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2009 9783642019067 3642019064
Publisher's no.:	12666959

Table of Contents:

Introduction 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
Introduction 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
Introduction to Part III
Formal and conceptual comparison of ontology mapping languages
Ontology integration using [epsilon] -connections
Composing modular ontologies with distributed description logics
Package-based description logics.