A note on the refinement of ontologies

✍ Scribed by Grigoris Antoniou; Athanasios Kehagias

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0884-8173
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-111x(200007)15:7<623::aid-int3>3.0.co;2-c

✦ Synopsis

Ontologies have emerged as one of the key issues in information integration and interoperability and in their application to knowledge management and electronic commerce. A trend towards formal methods for ontology management is obvious. This paper discusses a concept which can be expected to be of great importance to formal ontology management, and which is well-known in traditional software development: refinement. We define and discuss ontology refinement, give illustrating examples, and highlight its advantages as compared to other forms of ontology revision.