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Contextual Ontologies

Motivations, Challenges, and Solutions

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Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS 2006)

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Contextual ontologies are ontologies that characterize a concept by a set of properties that vary according to context. Contextual ontologies are now crucial for users who intend to exchange information in a domain. Existing ontology languages are not capable of defining such type of ontologies. The objective of this paper is to formally define a contextual ontology language to support the development of contextual ontologies. In this paper, we use description logics as an ontology language and then we extend it by introducing a new contextual constructor.

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Benslimane, D., Arara, A., Falquet, G., Maamar, Z., Thiran, P., Gargouri, F. (2006). Contextual Ontologies. In: Yakhno, T., Neuhold, E.J. (eds) Advances in Information Systems. ADVIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11890393_18

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