Pattern-based ontology modeling and some of its implications for Description Logics research

From International Center for Computational Logic

Pattern-based ontology modeling and some of its implications for Description Logics research

Talk by Pascal Hitzler
One of the original motivations for developing ontologies was that they were to act as generic domain models which can be easily reused and repurposed. However, ontology modeling for applications in practice is often driven by very concrete use cases, and thus the corresponding ontologies are often strongly tailored towards meeting very specific use case requirements. As a consequence, ontologies in practice are often not easy to repurpose. In this presentation, we discuss how to model ontologies in such a way as to simplify future reuse. In particular, we will discuss modularization of ontologies, the role of ontology design patterns, and ontology views. Our observations furthermore expose limitations of current description logics which may stimulate research investigations.


Pascal Hitzler is (full) Professor and Director of Data Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. His research record lists over 300 publications in such diverse areas as semantic web, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. He is Editor-in-chief of the Semantic Web journal by IOS Press, and of the IOS Press book series Studies on the Semantic Web. He is co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by CRC Press, 2010 which was named as one out of seven Outstanding Academic Titles 2010 in Information and Computer Science by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine, and has translations into German and Chinese. He is on the editorial board of several journals and book series and is a founding steering committee member of the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) conference series, of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy) workshop series, and of the Association for Ontology Design and Patterns (ODPA). He also frequently acts as conference chair in various functions.