Attributive concept descriptions with complements
Artificial Intelligence
WebODE: a scalable workbench for ontological engineering
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture
TABLEAUX '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
IJCAR '01 Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
Web ontology segmentation: analysis, classification and use
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Ontology Matching
The Description Logic Handbook
The Description Logic Handbook
SAMBO-A system for aligning and merging biomedical ontologies
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Just the right amount: extracting modules from ontologies
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
A Tableau Decision Procedure for $\mathcal{SHOIQ}$
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Ontology module extraction for ontology reuse: an ontology engineering perspective
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Privacy-Preserving Reasoning on the SemanticWeb
WI '07 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Metcalfe's law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
OBO-Edit—an ontology editor for biologists
Bioinformatics
Taxonomy-based partitioning of the Gene Ontology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
A pragmatic approach to mapping the open biomedical ontologies
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
Representing and reasoning with modular ontologies
Representing and reasoning with modular ontologies
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Detecting data records in semi-structured web sites based on text token clustering
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
A knowledge retrieval model using ontology mining and user profiling
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Utilizing phrase-similarity measures for detecting and clustering informative RSS news articles
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Ontology-based inference for causal explanation
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Falcon-AO: A practical ontology matching system
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
State of the nation in data integration for bioinformatics
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
ICSC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Semantic Modularity and Module Extraction in Description Logics
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Scalable semantic retrieval through summarization and refinement
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A semantic importing approach to knowledge reuse from multiple ontologies
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Modular reuse of ontologies: theory and practice
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
A logical framework for modularity of ontologies
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Conservative extensions in expressive description logics
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Integrity and change in modular ontologies
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Combining OWL ontologies using E-Connections
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Swoop: A Web Ontology Editing Browser
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Evaluating formalisms for modular ontologies in distributed information systems
RR'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Web reasoning and rule systems
History matters: incremental ontology reasoning using modules
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Matching patient records to clinical trials using ontologies
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Safe and economic re-use of ontologies: a logic-based methodology and tool support
ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
Module extraction and incremental classification: a pragmatic approach for ƐL+ ontologies
ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
ALT'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
Learning classifiers from distributed, ontology-extended data sources
DaWaK'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
A framework for ontology evolution in collaborative environments
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
DRAGO: distributed reasoning architecture for the semantic web
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
Modular ontologies – a formal investigation of semantics and expressivity
ASWC'06 Proceedings of the First Asian conference on The Semantic Web
DILS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Unauthorized inferences in semistructured databases
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Ontology consolidation in bioinformatics
APCCM '10 Proceedings of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling - Volume 110
Extracting knowledge from fuzzy relational databases with description logic
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Towards summarizing knowledge: Brief ontologies
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of ontology modularization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Identification of trends from patents using self-organizing maps
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Engineering use cases for modular development of ontologies in OWL
Applied Ontology - Modularity in Ontologies
A Query Integrator and Manager for the Query Web
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
SAMS --- A Systems Architecture for Developing Intelligent Health Information Systems
Journal of Medical Systems
Construction of ontologies from object-oriented database models
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Cross-domain targeted ontology subsets for annotation: The case of SNOMED CORE and RxNorm
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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In the past several years, various ontologies and terminologies such as the Gene Ontology have been developed to enable interoperability across multiple diverse medical information systems. They provide a standard way of representing terms and concepts thereby supporting easy transmission and interpretation of data for various applications. However, with their growing utilization, not only has the number of available ontologies increased considerably, but they are also becoming larger and more complex to manage. Toward this end, a growing body of work is emerging in the area of modular ontologies where the emphasis is on either extracting and managing "modules" of an ontology relevant to a particular application scenario (ontology decomposition) or developing them independently and integrating into a larger ontology (ontology composition). In this paper, we investigate state-of-the-art approaches in modular ontologies focusing on techniques that are based on rigorous logical formalisms as well as well-studied graph theories. We analyze and compare how such approaches can be leveraged in developing tools and applications in the biomedical domain. We conclude by highlighting some of the limitations of the modular ontology formalisms and put forward additional requirements to steer their future development.