Research and Design of Semantic Import Approach for Partial Ontology Reuse
Yongguo Han · Automation and Instrumentation · 2008
In the OWL(web ontology language),the main primitive for ontology reuse is owl:imports.But,this copy-and-paste approach suffers a number of deficiency.In this paper,we propose a new import primitive,called semantic import,to facilitate partial ontology reuse.The main contributions of this paper include the semantics of semantic import and reasoning support for TBox reasoning in simple ontology spaces,and presented a distributed algorithm for TBox reasoning of semantic import of ALC ontologies in simple ontology spaces.