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Formal ontology: Foundation of domain knowledge sharing and reusing

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Domain analysis is the activity of identifying and representing the relevant information in a domain, so that the information can be shared and reused in similar systems. But until now, no efficient approaches are available for capturing and representing the results of domain analysis and then for sharing and reusing the domain knowledge. This paper proposes an ontology-oriented approach for formalizing the domain models. The architecture for the multiple-layer structure of the domain knowledge base is also discussed. And finally, some genetic algorithm-based methods have been given for supporting the knowledge sharing and reusing.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Management, Decision and Information Systems Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, 100080, Beijing, P.R. China

    Lu Ruqian & Jin Zhi

  2. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, P.R. China

    Lu Ruqian & Jin Zhi

  3. Open Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, 200433, Shanghai, P.R. China

    Lu Ruqian

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Partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.69983010), the National Natural Science Key Foundation of China (Grant No.69733020), the National High-Tech Project (Grant No.2001AA113130), the Pre-973 Project (Grant No.2001CCA03000), the CAS Project of Brain and Mind Science and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

LU Ruqian, male, was born in Shanghai, China, in 1935. He received the degree of Diplom Mathematiker from the Friedlich Schiller University of Jena in 1959. He joined the Institute of Mathematics in 1959 and is now a professor of this institute. He is also a professor of Fudan University and a guest professor of Institute of Computing Technology. He is a academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and knowledge science, and theoretical computer science.

JIN Zhi is a professor of computer science at the Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from National University of Defense Technology in 1992. Her research interests include knowledge-based systems, ontology development, artificial intelligence, and requirements engineering. She has authored and co-authored one book and over 50 papers.

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Lu, R., Jin, Z. Formal ontology: Foundation of domain knowledge sharing and reusing. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 17, 535–548 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948822

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