TY - JOUR
T1 - Note on the refinement of ontologies
AU - Antoniou, Grigoris
AU - Kehagias, Athanasios
PY - 2000/7/1
Y1 - 2000/7/1
N2 - Ontologies have emerged as one of the key issues in information integration and interoperability and in their application to knowledge management and electronic commerce. A trend towards formal methods for ontology management is obvious. This paper discusses a concept which can be expected to bc of great importance to formal ontology management, and which is well-known in traditional software development: refinement. We define and discuss ontology refinement, give illustrating examples, and highlight its advantages as compared to other forms of ontology revision.
AB - Ontologies have emerged as one of the key issues in information integration and interoperability and in their application to knowledge management and electronic commerce. A trend towards formal methods for ontology management is obvious. This paper discusses a concept which can be expected to bc of great importance to formal ontology management, and which is well-known in traditional software development: refinement. We define and discuss ontology refinement, give illustrating examples, and highlight its advantages as compared to other forms of ontology revision.
KW - Electronic commerce
KW - Interoperability
KW - Software engineering
KW - Knowledge based systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033687404&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1098-111X(200007)15:7<623::AID-INT3>3.0.CO;2-C
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1098-111X(200007)15:7<623::AID-INT3>3.0.CO;2-C
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033687404
VL - 15
SP - 623
EP - 632
JO - International Journal of Intelligent Systems
JF - International Journal of Intelligent Systems
SN - 0884-8173
IS - 7
ER -