An Algebra for Composing Ontologies

Authors:
Saket Kaushik;Csilla Farkas;Duminda Wijesekera;Paul Ammann
Affiliations:
Department of Information & Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, U.S.A, {skaushik\'dwijesek\'pammann}@gmu.edu;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA, farkas@cse.sc.edu;Department of Information & Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, U.S.A, {skaushik\'dwijesek\'pammann}@gmu.edu;Department of Information & Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, U.S.A, {skaushik\'dwijesek\'pammann}@gmu.edu
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006)
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Ontologies are used as a means of expressing agreements to a vocabulary shared by a community in a coherent and consistent manner. As it happens in the Internet, ontologies are created by community members in a decentralized manner, requiring that they be merged before being used by the community. We develop an algebra to do so in the Resource Description Framework (RDF). To provide formal semantics of the proposed algebraic operators, we type a fragment of the RDF syntax.