Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: An overview

Artale, Alessandro; Franconi, Enrico; Guarino, Nicola; Pazzi, Luca

doi:10.1016/s0169-023x(96)00013-4

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“…The part-whole relation is seen as having a special importance in several applications [6,3,12]. DL, by means of the reflexive-transitive closure and the well-foundedness constructs, is able to capture fundamental aspects of the part-whole relation [12,2,16] as shown in [5].…”

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Representing and reasoning on SGML documents

Calvanese

Giacomo

Lenzerini

1997

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Representing and reasoning on SGML documents

Calvanese

Giacomo

Lenzerini

1997

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…For obvious space restrictions only the translation rule for partwhole relationships is shown: Part-whole relationships are important model properties in the configuration domain. In [1,17,18] it is pointed out that part-whole relationships have quite variable semantics depending on the regarded application domain. In most configuration environments, a part-whole relationship is described by the two basic roles partof and haspart.…”

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Acquiring Configuration Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web Using UML

Felfernig¹,

Friedrich²,

Jannach³

et al. 2002

Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web

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Abstract. The Semantic Web will provide the conceptual infrastructure to allow new forms of business application integration. This paper outlines our approach for integrating Web-based sales systems for highly complex customizable products and services (configuration systems) making use of descriptive representation formalisms of the Semantic Web. The evolving trend towards highly specialized solution providers cooperatively offering configurable products and services to their customers requires the extension of current (standalone) configuration technology with capabilities of knowledge sharing and distributed configuration problem solving. On the one hand, a standardized representation language is needed in order to tackle the challenges imposed by heterogeneous representation formalisms of state-of-the-art configuration environments (e.g. description logic or predicate logic based configurators), on the other hand it is important to integrate the development and maintenance of configuration systems into industrial software development processes. We show how to support both goals by demonstrating the applicability of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for configuration knowledge acquisition and by providing a set of rules for transforming UML models into configuration knowledge bases specified by languages such as OIL or DAML+OIL which represent the foundation for potential future description standards for Web services.

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“…Part-whole and other transitive relations have been extensively studied within the description logic community [4,5,88,111] and elsewhere [86,136]. The GRAIL representation used in GALEN contains a special construct 'specialisedBy' roughly equivalent to the TRANSFERS-THRO construct in Cyc [71].…”

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Rector

2001

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

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My own career in Medical Informatics and AI in Medicine has oscillated between concerns with medical records and concerns with knowledge representation with decision support as a pivotal integrating issue. It has focused on using AI to organise information and reduce 'muddle' and improve the user interfaces to produce 'useful and usable systems' to help doctors with a 'humanly impossible task'. Increasingly knowledge representation and ontologies have become the fulcrum for orchestrating re-use of information and integration of systems. Encouragingly, the dilemma between computational tractability and expressiveness is lessening, and ontologies and description logics are joining the mainstream both in AI in Medicine and in Intelligent Information Management generally. It has been shown possible to scale up ontologies to meet medical needs, and increasingly ontologies are playing a key role in meeting the requirements to scale up the complexity of clinical systems to meet the ever increasing demands brought about by new emphasis on reduction of errors, clinical accountability, and the explosion of knowledge on the Web.

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Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: An overview

Cited by 154 publications

References 22 publications

Representing and reasoning on SGML documents

Representing and reasoning on SGML documents

Acquiring Configuration Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web Using UML

AIM: a personal view of where I have been and where we might be going

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