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The objective of this paper is to define an ontology language to support multiple representations of ontologies. In our research, we focus on the logic-based ontology languages. As a matter of fact, we will consider only languages that are based on description logics (DLs). At first, we propose a sub-language of DL as an ontology language. Furthermore we achieve multiple representations of ontological concepts by extending such sub-language through the use of stamping mechanism proposed in the context of multiple representation of spatial databases. The proposed language should offer a modest solution to the problem of multirepresentation ontologies.
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Benslimane, D., Vangenot, C., Roussey, C., Arara, A. (2003). Multirepresentation in Ontologies. In: Kalinichenko, L., Manthey, R., Thalheim, B., Wloka, U. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39403-7_3
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