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AI 2001: AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence pp 378–389Cite as

Towards an Ontology of Part-of

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It is accepted that ontologies are vitally important for interoperability and information integration. The major part of every ontology is its taxonomy, a hierarchy of the kind-of relation. Aconceptual relation seldom omitted from ontological considerations of a domain is the part-of relation. Guarino and Welty provide an ontology of properties which facilitates dealing with kind-of—we summarise their proposal from an order-theoretic perspective, and employ it to address part-of. We propose criteria and analyse the resulting classifications of the partof relation. The result is a step towards an ontology of part-of.

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  1. Information Technology Division, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, PO Box 1500, 5108, Salisbury, SA, Australia

    Chris Nowak

  2. School of Computing Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Richard Raban

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  1. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, 5001, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Mike Brooks

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Nowak, C., Raban, R. (2001). Towards an Ontology of Part-of. In: Stumptner, M., Corbett, D., Brooks, M. (eds) AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2256. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45656-2_33

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