OntologyWinnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology

Author

Alani, Harith ; Harris, Stephen ; O´Neill, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

28-30 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

710

Lastpage

715

Abstract

Many ontologies are built for the main purpose of representing a domain, rather than to meet the requirements of a specific application. When applications and services are deployed over an ontology, it is sometimes the case that only few parts of the ontology are queried and used. Identifying which parts of an ontology are being used could be useful for realising the necessary fragments of the ontology to run the applications. Such information could be used to winnow an ontology, i.e., simplifying or shrinking the ontology to smaller, more fit for purpose sizes. This paper presents a study on the use of the AKT reference ontology by a number of applications and services, and investigate the possibility of using this information to winnow that ontology

Keywords

ontologies (artificial intelligence); query formulation; AKT reference ontology; advanced knowledge technology; ontology winnowing; query formulation; Application software; Buildings; Clustering algorithms; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Costs; Documentation; Ontologies; Scalability; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, 2005 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce, International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2504-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIMCA.2005.1631552

Filename

1631552