Contextual ontologies: motivations, challenges, and solutions

Authors:
Djamal Benslimane;Ahmed Arara;Gilles Falquet;Zakaria Maamar;Philippe Thiran;Faiez Gargouri
Affiliations:
LIRIS Laboratory, Lyon 1 University, Villeurbanne, France;LIRIS Laboratory, Lyon 1 University, Villeurbanne, France;University of Geneva, Genva, Switzerland;Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E;University of namur, Namur, Belgium;ISIM, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
Venue:
ADVIS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advances in Information Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

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.