FONTE - Factorizing ONTology Engineering Complexity

摘要

Because it is difficult to engineer a complex ontology with time, we here consider a method that allows for factorizing the complexity of the engineering process, FONTE (Factorizing ONTology Engineering complexity). FONTE divides the engineering task into building a time-less domain ontology and a temporal theory independently from each other. FONTE provides an operator directX that assembles the two independently developed ontologies into the targeted ontology. We investigate the quality of the proposed operator directX by applying it to a practical case study, viz. the engineering of an ontology about researchers including temporal interactions.