Contextual Ontologies

Abstract. Contextual ontologies are ontologies that characterize a concept by a set of properties that vary according to context. Contextual ontologies are now crucial for users who intend to exchange information in a domain. Existing ontology languages are not capable of defining such type of ontologies. The objective of this paper is to formally define a contextual ontology language to support the development of contextual ontologies. In this paper, we use description logics as an ontology language and then we extend it by introducing a new contextual constructor. Keywords. Context, Description logics, Ontology.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ADVIS
• Authors: Djamal Benslimane, Ahmed Arara, Gilles Falquet, Zakaria Maamar, Philippe Thiran, Faïez Gargouri
• Keywords: ADVIS 2006, Contextual Ontologies, Contextual Ontology Language, Information Systems, Ontology Language