Formal Contextual Ontologies for Intelligent Information Systems
Ahmed Arara, Robert Laurini · 2005
Abstract—Information system and ontologies are intertwining due to the extensive research in the emerging field of ontologies. Ontologies Driven Information Systems (ODIS) were introduced by N. Guarino in 1998 [Gua98], and recently is finding rather a great attention from numerous, diversified fields such as Web-based information systems, information integration, and the Semantic Web. This paper introduces the notion of contextual ontologies which it can be very promising to deal with the prominent problem namely semantics heterogeneity for information systems. We focus, however, on formal approach based on ontology to deal with the multirepresentation problem where the same concept can be used by several information systems. In fact, we present in this paper a snapshot of thesis research work in contextual ontologies. Keywords—Description logics (DLs), context, Intelligent Information Systems, and ontology.