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Meta-Modelling Ontology Design Pattern

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Abstract

In the last decades, the meta-modelling problem has received increasing attention in the conceptual modelling and semantic web communities. We have proposed a solution to this problem in the context of ontological modelling which consists in extending a fragment of the Web Ontology Language OWL with a meta-modelling constructor to equate instances to classes. Even though there are methodologies and patterns that help the ontology engineer to conceptualize a domain using ontologies, there is a lack of such guides for the meta-modelling approaches that extend OWL. In this work we introduce a design pattern that guides in the conceptualization of domains for which there are requirements at different knowledge levels, in particular for different user perspectives.

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    Descubrimiento de Interacciones que Impactan en el Aprendizaje - Creación de un ambiente de software para descubrir patrones semánticos de interacción.

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    Note that even though our extension of \(\mathcal {SHIQ}\) does not consider nominals, we declare a Tbox axiom including them, for the sole purpose of illustrating the usefullness of the rules on rules.

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    Sistema Integrado de Gestión de Garantía de Alquileres, Contaduría General de la Nación, www.cgn.gub.uy.

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  1. Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Edelweis Rohrer & Regina Motz

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, England

    Paula Severi

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Rohrer, E., Severi, P., Motz, R. (2019). Meta-Modelling Ontology Design Pattern. In: Villazón-Terrazas, B., Hidalgo-Delgado, Y. (eds) Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web. KGSWC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1029. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21395-4_8

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