Foundations of a functional approach to knowledge representation.
Artificial Intelligence
Generic tasks and task structures: history, critique and new directions
Second generation expert systems
The componential framework and its role in reusability
Second generation expert systems
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
An algorithm for suffix stripping
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The reuse of knowledge: a user-centred approach
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Modern Information Retrieval
Determining Semantic Similarity among Entity Classes from Different Ontologies
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Measuring Similarity between Ontologies
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Identifying and Filtering Near-Duplicate Documents
COM '00 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching
Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies: where is their meeting point?
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Requirements-oriented methodology for evaluating ontologies
Information Systems
Environmental Modelling & Software
Semantic precision and recall for ontology alignment evaluation
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Ontology-driven guidance for requirements elicitation
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semanic web: research and applications - Volume Part II
The seventeenth australasian document computing symposium
ACM SIGIR Forum
Ontology-based Data Integration for Corporate Sustainability Information Systems
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
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We present an ontology to represent the key concepts of sustainability indicators that are increasingly being used to measure the economic, environmental and social properties of complex systems. There have been few efforts to represent multiple indicators formally, in spite of the fact that comparison of indicators and measurements across reporting contexts is a critical task. In this paper, we apply the METHONTOLOGY approach to guide the construction of two design candidates we term Generic and Specific. Of the two, the generic design is more abstract, with fewer classes and properties. Documents describing two indicator systems - the Global Reporting Initiative and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- are used in the design of both candidate ontologies. We then evaluate both ontology designs using the ROMEO approach, to calculate their level of coverage against the seen indicators, as well as against an unseen third indicator set (the United Nations Statistics Division). We also show that use of existing structured approaches like METHONTOLOGY and ROMEO can reduce ambiguity in ontology design and evaluation for domain-level ontologies. It is concluded that where an ontology needs to be designed for both seen and unseen indicator systems, a generic and reusable design is preferable.