Semantics and implementation of schema evolution in object-oriented databases
SIGMOD '87 Proceedings of the 1987 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
EKAW '00 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web: From Scenario to Technology
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Evaluating the validity of data instances against ontology evolution over the Semantic Web
Information and Software Technology
Advanced ontology management system for personalised e-Learning
Knowledge-Based Systems
A description method of ontology change management using pi-calculus
KSEM'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
An ontology-guided approach to change detection of the semantic web data
Journal on Data Semantics V
A pi-calculus based ontology change management
ASWC'06 Proceedings of the First Asian conference on The Semantic Web
A model transformation based conceptual framework for ontology evolution
KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part I
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, COA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
Efficient regression testing of ontology-driven systems
Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Change management in evolving web ontologies
Knowledge-Based Systems
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Recently, the interest in the use of ontologies -- which can be seen as formal representations of conceptual models -- has increased because of the excitement about the vision of a "Semantic Web". When ontologies are used on the web, the distributed and dynamic nature of it requires advanced support for change management. This paper discusses the working of OntoView, a web-based change management system for ontologies. OntoView provides a transparent interface to different versions of ontologies, by maintaining not only the transformations between them, but also the conceptual relation between concepts in different versions. It uses several rules to find changes in ontologies and it visualizes them -- and some of their possible consequences -- in the file representations. The user is able to specify the conceptual implication of the differences, which allows the interoperability of data that is described by the ontologies. This paper briefly describes the system and presents the mechanism that we used to find and classify changes in RDFS / DAML ontologies. It also shows how users can specify the conceptual implication of changes to help interoperability.