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Description logic-based knowledge merging for concrete- and fuzzy- domain ontologies
journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-17, 13:40 authored by Sri K. Kumar, Jennifer HardingJennifer HardingEnterprises, especially virtual enterprises, are nowadays becoming more knowledge intensive and adopting efficient
knowledge management systems to boost their competitiveness. The major challenge for knowledge management for
virtual enterprises is to acquire, extract and integrate new knowledge with the existing source. Ontologies have been
proved to be one of the best tools for representing knowledge with class, role and other characteristics. It is imperative
to accommodate the new knowledge in the current ontologies with logical consistencies as it is tedious and costly to
construct new ontologies every time after acquiring new knowledge. This article introduces a mechanism and a process
to integrate new knowledge into the current system (ontology). Separate methods have been adopted for fuzzy- and
concrete-domain ontologies. The process starts by finding the semantic and structural similarities between the concepts
usingWordNet and description logic. Description logic–based reasoning is used next to determine the position and relationships
between the incoming and existing knowledge. The experimental results provided show the efficacy of the proposed
method.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering ManufactureCitation
KUMAR, S.K. and HARDING, J.A., 2015. Description logic-based knowledge merging for concrete- and fuzzy- domain ontologies. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 230 (5), pp. 954-971.Publisher
SAGE Publications / © IMechEVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This article was accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture [SAGE Publications / © IMechE]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954405414564404ISSN
0954-4054Publisher version
Language
- en