A Framework for Personalized Management of Domain Ontologies

As the sharable and reusable domain knowledge, domain ontology increasingly serves as a foundation for semantic Web. Personalized management of domain ontologies is to provide personalized views of domain ontologies to users during run time according to user preferences. It helps that users can focus on their interested parts, instead of the whole. It increases the efficiency of ontology-based application. This paper proposes a framework for personalized management of domain ontologies. In this framework, a user model firstly is introduced to describe user preferences. Secondly, domain ontologies are decomposed into moderate-scale modules with high cohesion and low coupling. During run time, modules that a user is interested in are selected out based on the user´s preferences. Finally, the selected modules are combined to construct personalized views of domain ontologies for the user.