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The algorithms dealing with the incorporation of new knowledge in an ontology (ontology evolution) often share a rather standard process of dealing with changes. This process consists of the specification of the language, the determination of the allowed update operations, the identification of the invalidities that could be caused by each such operation, the determination of the various alternatives to deal with each such invalidity, and, finally, some selection mechanism for singling out the “best” of these alternatives. Unfortunately, most ontology evolution algorithms implement these steps using a case-based, ad-hoc methodology, which is cumbersome and error-prone. The first goal of this paper is to present, justify and make explicit the five steps of the process. The second goal is to propose a general framework for ontology change management that captures this process, in effect generalizing the methodology employed by existing tools. The introduction of this framework allows us to devise a whole class of ontology evolution algorithms, which, due to their formal underpinnings, avoid many of the problems exhibited by ad-hoc frameworks. We exploit this framework by implementing a specific ontology evolution algorithm for RDF ontologies as part of the FORTH-ICS Semantic Web Knowledge Middleware (SWKM).
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Konstantinidis, G., Flouris, G., Antoniou, G., Christophides, V. (2008). On RDF/S Ontology Evolution. In: Christophides, V., Collard, M., Gutierrez, C. (eds) Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases. ODBIS SWDB 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70960-2_2
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