Composite ontology change operators and their customizable evolution strategies
Javed, MuhammadORCID: 0000-0001-9770-7640, Abgaz, YalemisewORCID: 0000-0002-3887-5342 and Pahl, ClausORCID: 0000-0002-9049-212X
(2012)
Composite ontology change operators and their customizable evolution strategies.
In: 2nd Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics EvoDyn 2012 - Collocated with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), 11-12 Nov 2012, Boston, US.
Change operators are the building blocks of ontology evolution. Elementary, composite and complex change operators have been suggested. While lower-level change operators are useful in terms of finegranular representation of ontology changes, representing the intent of change requires higher-level change operators. Here, we focus on higherlevel composite change operators to perform an aggregated task. We introduce composite-level evolution strategies. The central role of the evolution strategies is to preserve the intent of the composite change with respect to the user’s requirements and to reduce the change operational cost. Composite-level evolution strategies assist in avoiding the illegal changes or presence of illegal axioms that may generate inconsistencies during application of a composite change. We discuss few composite changes along with the defined evolution strategies as an example that allow users to control and customize the ontology evolution process.