Logical foundations of artificial intelligence
Logical foundations of artificial intelligence
Parts, wholes, and part-whole relations: the prospects of mereotopology
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
Mereotopology: a theory of parts and boundaries
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference June 6-8, 1998, Trento, Italy
Part-Whole Relationship Categories and Their Application in Object-Oriented Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
A Formal Ontology of Properties
EKAW '00 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
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It is accepted that ontologies are vitally important for interoperability and information integration. The major part of every ontology is its taxonomy, a hierarchy of the kind-of relation. A conceptual relation seldom omitted from ontological considerations of a domain is the part-of relation. Guarino and Welty provide an ontology of properties which facilitates dealing with kind-of--we summarise their proposal from an order-theoretic perspective, and employ it to address part-of. We propose criteria and analyse the resulting classifications of the part-of relation. The result is a step towards an ontology of part-of.