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Ontology is very promising in constructing a conceptual data model that can be very close to reality. Ontologies, as an explicit specification of conceptualization, play an essential role in information exchange and integration. Due to the facts that different perceptions, views, and abstractions, we end up having several representations of the same real world entity. The multi-representation problem is commonly known in the discipline of spatial databases and object-oriented modeling and different solutions have been proposed. Multi-representation ontologies are expected to become crucial due to the increasingly demand of multi-represented concept shareability among different applications and user communities in the same domain of interest. In this paper, we consider the notion of context as an abstraction mechanism to deal with multi-representation ontologies (contextual ontologies). A formal representation language based on modal description logics is proposed to comply with the requirements of multiple perspectives of domain ontology.The proposed representational language will provide constructs that deal with the multi-perspectives needs, and consequently queries can be formulated to deal with the multi-represented entities.
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Arara, A., Benslimane, D. (2004). Towards Formal Ontologies Requirements with Multiple Perspectives. In: Christiansen, H., Hacid, MS., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25957-2_13
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