The purpose of the chapter is to help someone familiar with DLs to understand the issues involved in developing an ontology for some universe of discourse, which is to become a conceptual model or knowledge base represented and reasoned with using Description Logics. We briefly review the purposes and history of conceptual modeling, and then use the domain of a university library to illustrate an approach to conceptual modeling that combines general ideas of object-centered modeling with a look at special modeling/ontological problems, and DL-specific solutions to them. Among the ontological issues considered are the nature of individuals, concept specialization, non-binary relationships, materialization, aspects of part-whole relationships, and epistemic aspects of individual knowledge.
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Borgida, A., & Brachman, R. J. (2010). Conceptual Modeling with Description Logics. In The Description Logic Handbook (pp. 377–401). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511711787.012
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