Camila Bezerra, Frederico Freitas, Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Zimmermann, ModOnto: A tool for modularizing ontologies, in: Proc. 3rd workshop on ontologies and their applications (Wonto), Salvador de Bahia (Bahia BR), (26 October ) 2008
During the last three years there has been growing interest and consequently active research on ontology modularization. This paper presents a concrete tool that incorporates an approach to ontology modularization that inherits some of the main principles from object-oriented software engineering, which are encapsulation and information hiding. What motivated us to track that direction is the fact that most ontology approaches to the problem focus on linking ontologies (or modules) rather than building modules that can encapsulate foreign parts of ontologies (or other modules) that can be managed more easily.
ontology, modularization, reuse, composition