Subdivision and Nature Analysis of Part-Whole Relation
Ling Song · Jisuanji gongcheng · 2006
The difference between the semantic meanings of Part-Whole(PW)relations often determines if the ontologies can be merged or reused.Wiston taxonomy is employed to partition the PW relations in medical ontologies into sub-relations,such that,each sub-relation has special meaning and satisfies the transitivity.Mereology theory is used to analyze the properties of the sub-relations,the similarity between the sub-relations and the correctness of the reasoning based on PW relations.The research results provide new methodology for the study of PW relations.