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7. Ontology Development by Reuse

Authors : Mariano Fernández-López, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez

Published in: Ontology Engineering in a Networked World

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This chapter presents methodological guidelines that allow engineers to reuse generic ontologies. This kind of ontologies represents notions generic across many fields, (is part of, temporal interval, etc.). The guidelines helps the developer (a) to identify the type of generic ontology to be reused, (b) to find out the axioms and definitions that should be reused and (c) to adapt and integrate the generic ontology selected in the domain ontology to be developed. For each task of the methodology, a set of heuristics with examples are presented. We hope that after reading this chapter, you would have acquired some basic ideas on how to take advantage of the great deal of well-founded explicit knowledge that formalizes generic notions such as time concepts and the part of relation.

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Title: Ontology Development by Reuse
Authors: Mariano Fernández-López
Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa
Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Ontology Engineering in a Networked World
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-24793-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-24794-1

Copyright Year: 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24794-1_7

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