Modular Reuse of Ontologies: Theory and Practice.

In this paper, we propose a set of tasks that are relevant for the modular reuse of ontologies. In order to formalize these tasks as reasoning problems, we introduce the notions of conservative extension, safety and module for a very general class of logic-based ontology languages. We investigate th...

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Main Authors: Grau, B, Horrocks, I, Kazakov, Y, Sattler, U
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008