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Ontology Engineering

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Ontological engineering

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Ontology Engineering is “the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, and the methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies” [2]. It provides “a basis of building models of all things in which computer science is interested” [4]. Ontology engineering aims at providing standard components for building knowledge models. Ontologies play a similar role to design rationale in mechanical design. It allows the reuse of knowledge in a knowledge base by providing conceptualization, reflecting assumptions and requirements made in the problem solving using the knowledge base. Ontology engineering provides the means to build and use ontologies for building models.

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Eight levels (from shallow to deep) of using ontologies can be defined [4]. At level 1, ontologies are used as a common vocabulary for communication. At level 2, it is used as a conceptual schema of a relational data...

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  1. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel

    Avigdor Gal

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

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  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Gal, A. (2009). Ontology Engineering. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1315

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