Putting OWL in Order:

OWLED*06 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions

Patterns for Sequences in OWL

PID  :  79534

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Sequences are a natural part of the world to be modelled in ontologies. Yet the Web Ontology Language, OWL, contains no specificsupport for ordering. It does, however, have constructs that can be used tomodel many aspects of sequences, albeit imperfectly. This paper demonstrates adesign pattern for modeling order within OWLDL. This allows us to usestandard DL reasoning to perform pattern matching akin to regular expressionmatching and works surprisingly well. The main point of this paper is thatformulating sequences in OWLDL brings real benefits to users by allowingthem to work at a higher level of abstraction than raw sequences and to deal