Paper Info
Title
Modularity of Ontologies in an Arbitrary Institution.
Abstract
The notion of module extraction has been studied extensively in the ontology community. The idea is to extract, from a large ontology, those axioms that are relevant to certain concepts of interest (formalised as a subsignature). The technical concept used for the definition of module extraction is that of inseparability, which is related to indistinguishability known from observational specifications. Module extraction has been studied mainly for description logics and the Web Ontology Language OWL. In this work, we generalise previous definitions and results to an arbitrary inclusive institution. We reveal a small inaccuracy in the formal definition of inseparability, and show that some results hold in an arbitrary inclusive institution, while others require the institution to be weakly union-exact. This work provides the basis for the treatment of module extraction within the institution-independent semantics of the distributed ontology, modeling and specification language (DOL), which is currently under submission to the Object Management Group (OMG).
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-23165-5_17
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
9200
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yazmín Ibáñez-García1449.48
Till Mossakowski2105290.11
Donald Sannella31417134.34
Andrzej Tarlecki41514124.61