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Interpreting distributed ontologies

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Yuzhong Qu,

Zhiqiang GaoAuthors Info & Claims

WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

Pages 270 - 271

https://doi.org/10.1145/1013367.1013430

Published: 19 May 2004 Publication History

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Semantic Web is challenged by the URI meaning issues arising from putting ontologies in open and distributed environments. As a try to clarify some of the meaning issues, this paper proposes a new approach to interpreting distributed ontologies, it's built on the top of local models semantics, and extends it to deal with the URI sharing by harmonizing the local models via agreement on vocabulary provenance. The commitment relationship is presented to allow the URI sharing between ontologies with richer semantics.

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Paolo Bouquet, et al. C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies, ISWC'2003, LNCS 2870, Sept. 2003, pp. 164--179

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C. Ghidini, F. Giunchiglia. Local Models Semantics, or Contextual Reasoning = Locality + Compatibility. Artificial Intelligence, 127(2):221--259, 2001.

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A. Borgida and L. Serafini. Distributed description logics: Directed domain correspondences in federated information sources. LNCS 2519, 2002, pp. 36--53.

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Interpreting distributed ontologies
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning

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WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

May 2004

532 pages

ISBN:1581139128

DOI:10.1145/1013367

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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