Local safety of an ontology?

Information Technologies - Applications and Theory 2009.

计算机科学;

Luk¶a·s Homo·la1 ; J¶ulius ·Stuller2 ; 2 Institute of Computer Science ; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

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PID  :  42723

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The ability to import ontologies safely, that is,without changing the original meaning of their terms, has been identi¯ed as crucial for the collaborative development and the reuse of (OWL) ontologies. In this paper, we propose the notion of local safety of an on- tology and we identify scenarios in which this notion may be useful in guiding the development of an ontology that is