Ontologies for conceptual modeling: their creation, use, and management

  • Authors:
  • Vijayan Sugumaran;Veda C. Storey

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Decision and Information Sciences, School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Rochester, MI;Computers and Information Systems, Georgia State University, Box 4015, Atlanta, GA

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Although ontologies have been proposed as an important and natural means of representing real world knowledge for the development of database designs, most ontology creation is not carried out systematically. To be truly useful, a repository of ontologies, organized by application domain is needed, along with procedures for creating and integrating ontologies into database design methodologies. This research proposes a methodology for creating and managing domain ontologies. An architecture for an ontology management system is presented and implemented in a prototype. Empirical validation of the prototype demonstrates the effectiveness of the research.