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Ontologies provide explicit models of shared conceptualizations, and are useful for modeling formal, semi formal, and informal knowledge needed for communication within a company. As there is typically more than one ontology used in a company (for instance one in each department), techniques are needed to merge ontologies in order to assure cross-company communication. In this paper, we summarize one such approach, called FCA-MERGE. During its development, it turned out that a formal definition of ‘ontology’ is needed. The resulting definition is presented for the first time in detail in this paper.1
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Stumme, G. (2002). Using Ontologies and Formal Concept Analysis for Organizing Business Knowledge. In: Becker, J., Knackstedt, R. (eds) Wissensmanagement mit Referenzmodellen. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52449-3_4
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