Ontology design and reuse with conceptual roles

Jakob Henriksson; Michael Pradel; Steffen Zschaler; Jeff Z. Pan

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88737-9-9

Ontology design and reuse with conceptual roles

Jakob Henriksson^*, Michael Pradel, Steffen Zschaler, Jeff Z. Pan

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Abstract

Ontologies are already used in the life sciences and the Semantic Web, but are expected to be deployed in many other areas in the near future-for example, in software development. As the use of ontologies becomes commonplace, they will be constructed more frequently and also become more complex. To cope with this issue, modularization paradigms and reuse techniques must be defined for ontologies and supported by ontology languages. In this paper, we propose the use of roles from conceptual modeling for this purpose, and show how they can be used to define ontological reuse units and enable modularization. We present role-based ontologies as an extension of standard ontologies and define their semantics through a reduction to standard Description Logics, such that existing reasoners can be used.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Second International Conference, RR 2008, Proceedings
Pages	104-118
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88737-9-9
Publication status	Published - 8 Dec 2008
Event	2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2008 - Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 31 Oct 2008 → 1 Nov 2008

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5341 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2008
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Karlsruhe
Period	31/10/08 → 1/11/08

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Henriksson, J., Pradel, M., Zschaler, S., & Pan, J. Z. (2008). Ontology design and reuse with conceptual roles. In Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Second International Conference, RR 2008, Proceedings (pp. 104-118). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5341 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88737-9-9

Ontology design and reuse with conceptual roles. / Henriksson, Jakob; Pradel, Michael; Zschaler, Steffen et al.
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Second International Conference, RR 2008, Proceedings. 2008. p. 104-118 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5341 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Henriksson, J, Pradel, M, Zschaler, S & Pan, JZ 2008, Ontology design and reuse with conceptual roles. in Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Second International Conference, RR 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5341 LNCS, pp. 104-118, 2nd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, 31/10/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88737-9-9

Henriksson J, Pradel M, Zschaler S, Pan JZ. Ontology design and reuse with conceptual roles. In Web Reasoning and Rule Systems - Second International Conference, RR 2008, Proceedings. 2008. p. 104-118. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-88737-9-9

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