The notion of ontology modularization refers to a methodological principle in
ontology engineering
In computer science, information science and systems engineering, ontology engineering is a field which studies the methods and methodologies for building Ontology (information science), ontologies, which encompasses a representation, formal nami ...
. The idea is that an ontology is built in a modular manner, i.e. developed as a set of small modules and later composed to form, and be used as, one modular ontology.
One of the major research meetings on ontology modularization is the
International Workshop on Modular Ontologies series.
See also
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Ontology double articulation
References
Modular Ontologies, Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge ModularizationStuckenschmidt, Heiner; Parent, Christine; Spaccapietra, Stefano (Eds.) In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 5445. 2009. Springer. {{ISBN, 978-3-642-01906-7
External Links to Past and Future Workshops
Seventh International Workshop on Modular Ontologies(WoMO-13)], A Coruna, Spain, July 2012, co-located with LPNMR 2013.
Sixth International Workshop on Modular Ontologies(WoMO-12)], Graz, Austria, July 2012, co-located with FOIS 2012
Proceeding.
Fifth International Workshop on Modular Ontologies(WoMO-11), Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2011 (co-located with ESSLLI 2011).
Fourth International Workshop on Modular Ontologies(WOMO-10), held at Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010 (co-located with FOIS 2010).
International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity(WORM-08). Tenerife, Spain, June 2, 2008, co-located with ESWC 2008
Proceeding.
Second International Workshop on Modular Ontologies(WOMO-07), October 28, 2007. Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, co-located with K-Cap 2007
Proceeding.
(WOMO-06), November 5, 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA, co-located with ISWC 2006
Proceeding.
Ontology (information science)
Modularity