Structural conflict avoidance in collaborative ontology engineering

Ziv Hellman, Amit Gal

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Abstract

Given the increasing importance of ontologies in enterprise settings, mechanisms enabling users working simultaneously to edit and engineer ontologies in a collaborative environment are required. The challenges that may arise in attempting to prevent structural conflicts when several users edit ontologies simultaneously are not trivial, given the high level of dependencies between concepts in ontologies. In this paper we identify and classify these dependencies. Sophisticated ontology locking mechanisms based on a graph depiction of the dependencies that are sufficient for preventing structural conflicts arising in collaborative settings are proposed. Applications of this research to the Semantic Web are also considered.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICEIS 2003 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
EditorsSlimane Hammoudi, Joaquim Filipe, Mario Piattini, Olivier Camp
PublisherEscola Superior de Tecnologia do Instituto Politecnico de Setubal
Pages67-76
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9729881618
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2003 - Angers, France
Duration: 23 Apr 200326 Apr 2003

Publication series

NameICEIS 2003 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
Volume3

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2003
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityAngers
Period23/04/0326/04/03

Keywords

  • Collaborative ontology engineering
  • Dependencies
  • Dependency graphs

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