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Towards a Functional Approach to Modular Ontologies using Institutions
Daniel Pokrywczyński, Grant Malcolm
53 - 66
10.3233/978-1-60750-544-0-53
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 210: Modular Ontologies
Abstract

We propose a functional view of ontologies that emphasises their role in determining answers to queries, irrespective of the formalism in which they are written. A notion of framework is introduced that captures the situation of a global language into which both an ontology language and a query language can be translated, in an abstract way. We then generalise existing notions of robustness from the literature, and relate these to interpolation properties that support modularisation of ontologies.

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