Integrating Multi-viewpoints Paradigm in Ontology Using Ontology Design Patterns

Abstract

Everyone has his own perception or viewpoint of real worlds objects. In this paper, a multi-viewpoints paradigm is integrated in ontology with using the ontology design patterns. Ontology development and use constitute an important research area for semantic web. Ontology has been established for knowledge sharing and is widely used as a means for conceptually structuring domains of interest. An ontology that supports multi-views representation of its concepts is the key to achieve the objective of allowing each user to build his own view according to his perception of the world / his needs and independently of other users. This paper describes a new ontology design pattern called multi-viewpoints pattern for integrating viewpoints notion in ontology. The multi-view pattern is evaluated by an extended formal concept analysis. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.