Ontology modularization

The notion of ontology modularization refers to a methodological principle in ontology engineering. The idea is that an ontology is built in a modular manner, i.e. developed as a set of small modules and later composed to form, and be used as, one modular ontology.

One of the major research meetings on ontology modularization is the series.

See also[]

• Ontology double articulation

References[]

• Modular Ontologies, Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization Stuckenschmidt, Heiner; Parent, Christine; Spaccapietra, Stefano (Eds.) In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 5445. 2009. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-01906-7

External Links to Past and Future Workshops[]

• Seventh International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO-13)], A Coruna, Spain, July 2012, co-located with LPNMR 2013.
• Sixth International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO-12)], Graz, Austria, July 2012, co-located with FOIS 2012 (Proceeding).
• Fifth International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO-11), Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2011 (co-located with ESSLLI 2011).
• Fourth International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WOMO-10), held at Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010 (co-located with FOIS 2010).
• International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity (WORM-08). Tenerife, Spain, June 2, 2008, co-located with ESWC 2008 (Proceeding).
• Second International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WOMO-07), October 28, 2007. Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, co-located with K-Cap 2007 (Proceeding).
• First International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WOMO-06), November 5, 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA, co-located with ISWC 2006 (Proceeding).