The Modular Structure of an Ontology: Atomic Decomposition and Module Count
Del Vescovo Chiara, Bijan Parsia, Sattler Uli, Thomas Schneider · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2011
Extracting a subset of a given ontology that captures all the ontology's knowledge about a specified set of terms is a well-understood task. This task can be based, for instance, on locality-based modules. However, a single module does not allow us to understand neither topicality, connectedness, structure, or superfluous parts of an ontology, nor agreement between actual and intended modeling.