Hozo: An environment for building/using ontologies based on a fundamental consideration of “Role” and “Relationship”

Abstract

We have developed an environment for building/using ontologies, named Hozo, based on both of a fundamental consideration of an ontological theory and a methodology of building an ontology. Since Hozo is based on an ontological theory of a role-concept, it can distinguish concepts dependent on particular contexts from so-called basic concepts and contribute to building reusable ontologies. © 2002 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.