History Matters: Incremental Ontology Reasoning Using Modules

A paper written by Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Christian Halaschek-Wiener and Yevgeny Kazakov. It was presented at the ISWC2007+ASWC2007.

[edit] Abstract

The development of ontologies involves continuous but relatively small modifications. Existing ontology reasoners, however, do not take advantage of the similarities between different versions of an ontology. In this paper, we propose a technique for incremental reasoning---that is, reasoning that reuses information obtained from previous versions of an ontology---based on the notion of a module. Our technique does not depend on a particular reasoning calculus and thus can be used in combination with any reasoner. We have applied our results to incremental classification of OWL DL ontologies and found significant improvement over regular classification time on a set of real-world ontologies.

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