Abstract
Slicing is a method that can extract required segments from data according some special criteria. Program slicing and model slicing are two familiar slicing techniques. By introducing slicing technique into ontology engineering domain, an ontology slicing method is provided in this paper. In the method, an Ontology Dependency Graph (ODG) is derived from OMG’s Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), and then ontology slices are generated automatically according slicing criteria. This method has many applications in which large scale ontology processing is needed.
The present work has been supported by European Commission under grant No. TH/Asia Link/010 (111084), the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under grant No. 20061083044 and Jilin Province Science Development Plan Project of China under grant No. 20050527.
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Jin, L., Liu, L. (2007). An Ontology Slicing Method Based on Ontology Definition Metamodel. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_16
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