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Towards a Contextual Content of Ontologies

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Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2003)

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In this paper, we propose an ontology representation language that should provide contextual representation and contextual querying. Our proposal relies on the description logics formalism and the stamping mechanism proposed in database field. Our approach consists of defining contextual concepts by adding stamps to constructors of complex concepts. Such stamped constructors are interpreted according to the contexts they hold in their definition. Thus, contextual concepts denote different sets of individuals with varying attributes.

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  1. LIRIS, Université Lyon 1, IUT A, 69622, Villeurbanne, France

    Djamal Benslimane, Catherine Roussey & Ahmed Arara

  2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Database Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Christelle Vangenot

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  1. Djamal Benslimane
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  1. The International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China

    Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, NC 28223, Charlotte, USA

    Zbigniew W. Raś

  3. Shimane University, 89-1 Enya-cho Izumo, 6938501, Shimane, Japan

    Shusaku Tsumoto

  4. Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

    Einoshin Suzuki

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Benslimane, D., Roussey, C., Vangenot, C., Arara, A. (2003). Towards a Contextual Content of Ontologies. In: Zhong, N., Raś, Z.W., Tsumoto, S., Suzuki, E. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2871. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39592-8_47

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