Modular Ontologies Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge M
This book constitutes a collection of research achievements mature enough to provide a firm and reliable basis on modular ontologies. It gives the reader a detailed analysis of the state of the art of the research area and di
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Heiner Stuckenschmidt Christine Parent Stefano Spaccapietra (Eds.)
Modular Ontologies Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization
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Volume Editors Heiner Stuckenschmidt Universität Mannheim, Institut für Informatik B6, 26, 68159 Mannheim, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Christine Parent Université de Lausanne, HEC ISI 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Stefano Spaccapietra École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-IC, Database Laboratory 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected]
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0302-9743 3-642-01906-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-01906-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The growing emphasis on complexity concerns for ontologies has attracted significant interest from both the researchers’ and the practitioners’ communities in modularization techniques as a way to decrease the complexity of managing huge ontologies. Research has produced many complementary and competing approaches, mainly with the goal of supporting practitioners’ methodologies with sound and precisely defined foundations and alternatives. Existing prototypes substantiate research resu
