Selecting and Customizing a Mereology Ontology for its Reuse in a Pharmaceutical Product Ontology
Mariano Fernández‐López, Asuncíon Gómez-Pérez, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa · Archivo Digital UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) · 2008
This paper presents our experience in reusing mereology ontologies in a Pharmaceutical Product ontology, an ontology built by the EU NeOn project. It shows a set of mereology ontologies implemented in different machine interpretable languages and analyzes them according to the different types of mereology identified by Varzi. Then, it describes the specifications of mereology modeling necessities for Pharmaceutical Product. Finally, it presents the ontology which fits best with the specifications. One of the results of this work is a procedure to reuse general (also called common) ontologies.