Modularization

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The notion of Ontology Modularization refers to a methodological principle in ontology engineering. The idea is that an ontology is built in a modular manner, i.e. developed as a set of small modules and later composed to form, and be used as, one modular ontology. Composition operators can be defined for automatic module composition (Jarrar 2005, Jarrar 2005a).

The CContology is an ebusiness ontology, built according to this Modularization principle. DogmaModeler is a modeling tool that was also supports this principle.

[edit] See Also

• The Ontology double articulationprinciple.

[edit] External links

• The CContology
• The DogmaModeler website
• Mustafa Jarrar

[edit] References

• Mustafa Jarrar: Towards methodological principles for ontology engineering. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (May 2005)
• Mustafa Jarrar: Modularization and automatic composition of Object-Role Modeling (ORM) Schemes. In OTM 2005 Workshops, proceedings of the International Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM'05). Volume 3762, LNCS, Pages (613-625), Springer. ISBN: 3540297391. November 2005.