A diagrammatic representation for entities and mereotopological relations in ontologies
José Maria Parente de Oliveira, Barry Smith · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · 2017
In the graphical representation of ontologies, it is customary to use graph theory as the representational background. We claim here that the standard graph-based approach has a number of limitations. We focus here on a problem in the graph-based representation of ontologies in complex domains such as biomedical, engineering and manufacturing: lack of mereotopological representation. Based on such limitation, we proposed a diagrammatic way to represent an entity’s structure and various forms of mereotopological relationships between the entities.