HIGHER-ORDER REPRESENTATION AND REASONING FOR AUTOMATED ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION

Michael Chan, Jos Lehmann, Alan Bundy

2010

Abstract

The GALILEO system aims at realising automated ontology evolution. This is necessary to enable intelligent agents to manipulate their own knowledge autonomously and thus reason and communicate effectively in open, dynamic digital environments characterised by the heterogeneity of data and of representation languages. Our approach is based on patterns of diagnosis of faults detected across multiple ontologies. Such patterns allow to identify the type of repair required when conflicting ontologies yield erroneous inferences. We assume that each ontology is locally consistent, i.e. inconsistency arises only across ontologies when they are merged together. Local consistency avoids the derivation of uninteresting theorems, so the formula for diagnosis can essentially be seen as an open theorem over the ontologies. The system's application domain is physics; we have adopted a modular formalisation of physics, structured by means of locales in Isabelle, to perform modular higher-order reasoning, and visualised by means of development graphs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chan M., Lehmann J. and Bundy A. (2010). HIGHER-ORDER REPRESENTATION AND REASONING FOR AUTOMATED ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-29-4, pages 84-93. DOI: 10.5220/0003097800840093

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod10,
author={Michael Chan and Jos Lehmann and Alan Bundy},
title={HIGHER-ORDER REPRESENTATION AND REASONING FOR AUTOMATED ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={84-93},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003097800840093},
isbn={978-989-8425-29-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)
TI - HIGHER-ORDER REPRESENTATION AND REASONING FOR AUTOMATED ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION
SN - 978-989-8425-29-4
AU - Chan M.
AU - Lehmann J.
AU - Bundy A.
PY - 2010
SP - 84
EP - 93
DO - 10.5220/0003097800840093