Abstract
Aspect-Oriented Ontology Development takes inspiration from Aspect-Oriented Programming and provides a novel approach to the problems of ontology modularization and metamodeling by adding support for reified axioms. The book chapter describes the syntax and semantics of Aspect-Oriented Ontology Development, explains its benefits and possible weaknesses as compared to other existing modularization approaches and presents a set of application scenarios as well as a set of supporting tools.
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As defined by the IEEE standard 1471 of software architecture [2], “concerns are those interests which pertain to the systems development, its operation or any other aspects that are critical or otherwise important to one or more stakeholders”.
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The bottom concept may be constructed by negation of the top concept, so we omit the dedicated bottom concept constructor in order to avoid redundancy. Likewise, we do not introduce the equvialent concept axiom, because it may be defined inductively from general concept inclusions and conjunction.
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At the time of the writing of this report, the target language of the OWL API was OWL 2.
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source code available at https://github.com/RalphBln/onto-module-metrics.
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This work has been partially supported by the InnoProfile Transfer project “Corporate Smart Content” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
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Schäfermeier, R., Paschke, A. (2018). Aspect-Oriented Ontology Development. In: Nalepa, G., Baumeister, J. (eds) Synergies Between Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 626. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64161-4_1
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