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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stuckenschmidt, Heiner, editor.

Parent, Christine, editor.

Spaccapietra, S., editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

LNCS sublibrary. Theoretical computer science and general issues ; SL 1, 5445.

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ; 5445

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software.

Information storage and retrieval.

Database management.

Software engineering.

Data mining.

Data structures (Computer science).

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Information Storage and Retrieval.

Database Management.

Software Engineering.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Data Structures.

Local Subjects:

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Information Storage and Retrieval.

Database Management.

Software Engineering.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Data Structures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 378 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2009.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file PDF

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.

Contents:

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.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-642-01907-4

9783642019074

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.