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Making Sense of Design Patterns

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Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses (EKAW 2010)

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This paper discusses the way in which design patterns may improve the current practice of ontology engineering. It presents five requirements that go beyond the current state of the art of collecting and curating design patterns. We build on the thesis outlined in [17] that design patterns should be one of several possible outcomes of a fundamental design decision. We emphasise their relation to structures in cognition rather than domain dependence. This to improve our understanding of what ontology design patterns are, and how they relate to (modelling) expertise. We provide a definition of structural design patterns, give a number of examples, and discuss further work.

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  1. Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Rinke Hoekstra & Joost Breuker

  2. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Rinke Hoekstra

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Hoekstra, R., Breuker, J. (2010). Making Sense of Design Patterns. In: Cimiano, P., Pinto, H.S. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses. EKAW 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16438-5_23

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