Title : ( A framework for handling revisions in distributed ontologies )
Authors: F Ensan , Ebrahim Bagheri ,
Full TextAbstract
One of the important issues in ontology management is handling incoming updates and dealing with possible inconsistencies that they may induce. This is even more challenging in the context of a modular and distributed representation, because of the side-effects of the propagation of changes to the other connected or related ontologies. In this paper, we analyze the notion of ontology revision in a distributed ontology representation. We introduce a revision operator for distributed ontologies and show that it satisfies important postulates for knowledge base revision. In addition, based on a tableau algorithm for ALC ontologies, we propose an algorithm for applying the received changes and revising the original ontology through the proposed operator.
Keywords
, ontology management, modular ontologies, updates, knowledge base revision
@inproceedings{paperid:1053434,
author = {Ensan, F and Ebrahim Bagheri},
title = {A framework for handling revisions in distributed ontologies},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing},
year = {2011},
keywords = {ontology management; modular ontologies; updates; knowledge base revision},
}
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A framework for handling revisions in distributed ontologies
%A Ensan, F
%A Ebrahim Bagheri
%J Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
%D 2011
