The modular structure of an ontology: an empirical study
del Vescovo Chiara, Bijan Parsia, Sattler Uli, Thomas Schneider · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2010
Efficiently extracting a module from a given ontology that captures all the ontology's knowledge about a set of specified terms is a well-understood task. This task can be based, for instance, on locality-based modules.