Ontology Inheritance Task

An Ontology Inheritance Task is an ontology matching task in which an ontology inherits all concepts, relations and restrictions or axioms from another ontology.

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Ontology Merging Task.
  • an Ontology Mapping Task.
  • an Ontology Unification Task.
  • an Ontology Integration Task.
• See: Knowledge Database, Ontology, Domain of Discourse, Taxonomy, Semantic Web.

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References

2007

• (Obitko, 2007) ⇒ (2007) http://www.obitko.com/tutorials/ontologies-semantic-web/operations-on-ontologies.html Translations Between Ontologies in Multi-agent Systems - Ontology Operations].” PhD Thesis, Czech Technical University
  • It is possible that one application uses multiple ontologies, especially when using modular design of ontologies or when we need to integrate with systems that use other ontologies. In this case, some operations on ontologies may be needed in order to work with all of them. We will summarize some of these operations. The terminology in this areas is still not stable and different authors may use these terms in a bit shifted meaning, and so the terms may overlap, however, all of these operations are important for maintenance and integration of ontologies.
    • Merge of ontologies (...)
    • Mapping (...)
    • Alignment (...)
    • Refinement(...)
    • Unification (...)
    • Integration (...)
    • Inheritance means that ontology A inherits everything from ontology B. It inherits all concepts, relations and restrictions or axioms and there is no inconsistency introduced by additional knowledge contained in ontology A. This term is important for modular design of ontologies (see later) where an upper ontology describes general knowledge and a lower application ontology adds knowledge needed only for the particular application. Inheritance defines partial ordering between ontologies.

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