MVP-OWL: a multi-viewpoints ontology language for the Semantic Web

Abstract

Domain ontologies are intended to provide a commonly shared understanding among several user communities. Concepts and their relationships are used to explicitly model the realworld phenomena that are of interest to users of specific domain. In practice, a set of a specificdomain applications use different representations of the same real-world entity due to various viewpoints, context and specific interest. In this paper, we are interested in the problem of representing an ontology in heterogeneous organisation by taking into account different viewpoints and different terminologies of various users, groups or even communities in the organisation. Such ontology, called Multi-Viewpoints Ontology, allows heterogeneity and consensus in a heterogeneous organisation. So, our goal is to propose a Multi-Viewpoints Ontology Web Language, which is an extension of OWL-DL language, to allow the multiviewpoints ontologies representation for the Semantic Web. and a co-head of the SI&BC research group at the LIRE laboratory. Her research interests include knowledge representation and knowledge base design; formal knowledge representation models and query languages for the Semantic Web. This paper is a revised and expanded version of a paper

VP-RDF: An RDF Based Framework to Introduce the Viewpoint in the Description of Resources

“…Several works have been realised on the notion of the viewpoint. Some of them are interested in the integration of the viewpoint in the ontology (e.g., [14], [15], [25]- [32]).…”

“…We will explain the choice of RDF. Hemam and Boufaida [15] proposed MVP-OWL as an extension of OWL to represent the notion of viewpoint within the ontology. Existing tools for the manipulation of ontologies cannot exploit the MVP-OWL elements.…”

Multi-viewpoint Ontological Representation of Composite Concepts : a Description Logics Based Approach

“…In this interpretation, a viewpoint includes context, and the perception of a person or group of persons. Examples of systems that implement viewpoint in the area of knowledge representations are Hemam and Boufaida (2011), Bobrow and Winograd (1977), Davis (1987), Djezzar and Boufaida (2015) and Ribière and Dieng (1997). Several terms have been assigned to this notion such as perspectives (Sciore, 1989), dimensions (Gergatsoulis et al, 2001), and viewpoints (Hemam and Boufaida, 2011;Djezzar and Boufaida, 2015;Djezzar et al, 2012).…”

“…In a previous research works (Hemam and Boufaida, 2011;Djezzar et al, 2012), we have investigated the problem of representing a domain ontology by taking into account the notion of a viewpoint. This type of ontology, that we call multi-viewpoints ontology, is a multiple description of the same universe of discourse according to various viewpoints.…”

“…In this work, we are interested in the problem of representing ontology in heterogeneous organisation by taking into account different viewpoints and different terminologies of various users, groups or even communities in the organisation. Such ontology, that we call multi-viewpoints ontology (Hemam and Boufaida, 2011), is used to group different possible conceptualisations of the domain modelled according to different perspectives in a single ontology. For defining multi-viewpoints ontology, we were inspired by works that deal with viewpoint notion in the area of knowledge representation (Mariño, 1993;Benslimane et al, 2006).…”