FONTE: factorizing ONTology engineering complexity

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Santos;Steffen Staab

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto - Portugal;Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe - Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Knowledge capture
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Because it is difficult to engineer a complex ontology with time, we here consider a method that allows for factorizing the complexity of the engineering process, FONTE (Factorizing ONTology Engineering complexity). FONTE divides the engineering task into building a time-less domain ontology and a temporal theory independently from each other. FONTE provides an operator ⊗ that assembles the two independently developed ontologies into the targeted ontology. We investigate the quality of the proposed operator ⊗ by applying it to a practical case study, viz. the engineering of an ontology about researchers including temporal interactions.