A Modular Approach to Scalable Ontology Development
A Modular Approach to Scalable Ontology Development
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可扩展本体开发的模块化方法
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2010
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通讯作者：
W. Du
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F. Ensan;W. Du
越来越多的人希望应用语义网技术来描述大型和复杂的领域，这就需要可伸缩的方法来开发本体。模块化是一种新兴的本体开发方法，它可以带来更具可扩展性的开发过程和更好的推理性能。在本章中，我们描述了基于接口的模块化本体形式化及其开发可伸缩本体的能力，提出了对OWL-DL的扩展以及通过该形式化来创建可伸缩本体的工具支持。此外，我们还介绍了一组用于评估模块化本体的度量，并讨论了如何将这些度量应用于分析本体的可扩展性和推理性能。我们调查了一些来自真实世界本体的案例研究，基于基于接口的模块化形式化对它们进行了重新设计，并通过引入的度量对它们进行了分析。
The increasing desire for applying semantic web techniques for describing large and complex domains demanded scalable methods for developing ontologies. Modularity is an emerging approach for developing ontologies that leads to more scalable development process and better reasoning performance. In this chapter, we describe the interface-based modular ontology formalism and its capabilities for developing scalable ontologies.We present an extension to OWL-DL as well as tool support for creating scalable ontologies through the formalism. Furthermore, we introduce a set of metrics for evaluating modular ontologies and argue how these metrics can be applied for analyzing the scalability and reasoning performance of ontologies. We investigate a number of case studies from real-world ontologies, redesign them based on the interface-based modular formalism and analyze them through the introduced metrics.