Towards a topical ontology of fraud

Abstract

The paper describes the concept of topical ontology and the development of a topical ontology of fraud. A topical ontology is concerned with a set of themes identified to represent the knowledge structure of the domain expert. It reflects the specific scope, perspectives and granularity of conceptualization about the themes. It sits on the base ontology, integrates multiple domain ontology and serves as the knowledge framework for application ontologies. It is architected with a basic conceptual schema and configuration design pattern to capture the knowledge structure as well as concepts and relations of the knowledge. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.