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The role of ontologies is to provide a well-defined structure of domain knowledge that acts as the heart of any system of knowledge representation on that domain for the purposes of reasoning, knowledge sharing, and integration. Thus, it is essential to clarify the structure of knowledge in ontologies. In this paper, we discuss how ontology developers can define the identity conditions of classes explicitly, and can utilize them to develop structured taxonomies with adequate consistency. The background of this paper is OntoClean which is a domain independent methodology for ontology modeling using some philosophical notions. We exemplify the classification of sorts with necessary conceptual constraints. Then, we provide an explicit, simplified, and practical ontological analysis system regarding our subsumption constraints.
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Tun, N.N., Tojo, S. (2006). Identity Conditions for Ontological Analysis. In: Lang, J., Lin, F., Wang, J. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11811220_35
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