A formal taxonomy of types of mereological and meronymic part-whole relations is presented that distinguishes between transitive and intransitive relations and the kind of entity types that are related.Expand
A formal taxonomy of types of mereological and meronymic part-whole relations is presented that distinguishes between transitive and intransitive relations and the kind of entity types that are related.Expand
There is an assumption that ontology developers will use top-down approach by using a foundational ontology, because it purportedly speeds up ontology development and improves quality and interoperability of the domain ontology.Expand
In addition to the Database Comprehension Problem, where diagrammatic conceptual data models are too large for a modeller or domain expert to comprehend or manage, an Ontology ComprehensION Problem is emerging.Expand
We have created a formal mapping between the software-supported ecological modeling method and software tool STELLA and ontology elements, which simplifies bottom-up ontology development considerably and has excellent potential for semi-automated ontological development.Expand
In this paper we face the issue of imposing temporal constraints on part-whole relationships, introducing a way to account for essential and immutable parts (and wholes) in addition to the usual mandatory parts, which distinguishes between rigid and anti-rigid classes.Expand
Ontology development methodologies provide scenarios, but they do not address the dependencies between the permutations at the different stages in the development process.Expand
The Data Mining OPtimization Ontology (DMOP) has been developed to support informed decision-making at various choice points of the data mining process in view of extracting patterns associated with mining performance.Expand