Ontological Engineering
Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium
Adam Farquhar and Michael Gruninger, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-97-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
The Neutral Representation Project / 1
Mike Barley, Peter Clark, Keith Williamson and Steve Woods
The Ontology of Tasks and Methods / 9
B. Chandrasekaran and J. R. Josephson
Iterative Refinement of Knowledge Bases with Consistency Guarantees / 17
Stephen F. Correl and Bruce W. Porter
Reuse of An Ontology In An Electrical Distribution Network Domain / 25
Hercules Dalianis and Fredrik Persson
Methontology: From Ontological Art Towards Ontological Engineering / 33
Mariano Fernández, Asunción Gómez-Pérez and Natalia Juristo
Use of An Accounting Object Infrastructure for Knowledge-Based Enterprise Models / 41
Guido L. Geerts and William E. McCarthy
Using Ontologies for the Intergrated Product Model Development / 50
H. Grabowski and E. Meis
Some Organizing Principles for a Unified Top-Level Ontology / 57
Nicola Guarino
Knowledge Representation with MESNET - A Multilayered Extended Semantic Network / 64
Hermann Helbig and Marion Schulz
Modeling Method Ontologies: A Foundation for Enterprise Model Integration / 73
Christopher Menzel
The State of the Art in Ontology Design: A Comparative Review / 84
Natalya Fridman Noy and Carole D. Hafner
JTF ATD Core Plan Representation / 95
R. Adam Pease and Tod M. Carrico
Experience Building a Large, Re-Usable Medical Ontology Using a Description Logic with Transitivity and Concept Inclusions / 100
Alan L. Rector and Ian R. Horrocks
A Constructivist Approach to the Difficulties of Ontological Engineering / 108
Stephen Regoczei
How We Might Reach Agreement on Shared Ontologies: A Fundamental Approach / 114
Doug Skuce
An Ontology for Constructing Scheduling Systems / 120
Stephen F. Smith and Marcel A. Becker
Mapping German Word Senses Onto a Core Ontology to Create a Multilingual Language Engineering Resource / 130
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Oliver Christ, Annette McElligott, Christine Stöckert, Ulrich Heid and Helmut Feldweg
Toward Distributed Use of Large-Scale Ontologies / 138
Bill Swartout, Ramesh Patil, Kevin Knight and Tom Russ
Distributed Ontology Development Environment for Multi-Agent Systems / 149
Motoyuki Takaai, Hideaki Takeda and Toyoaki Nishida
Ontological Engineering with Principled Core Ontologies / 154
André Valente and Joost Breuker
An Analysis of Ontology Mismathes: Heterogeneity Versus Interoperability / 164
Pepijn R. S. Visser, Dean M. Jones, T. J. M. Bench-Capon and M. J. R. Shave
Runtime Classification of Agent Services / 173
Peter Weinstein and William P. Birmingham
Design and Use of an Ontology for Complex Artifacts / 181
Klaus Wimmer
Using Explicit Ontologies in Agent-Based Healthcare Information Systems / 189
Sabina Falasconi, Giordano Lanzola and Mario Stefanelli
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