OWL Change Management Patterns

Rim Djedidi (1) , Marie-Aude Aufaure (1)

1 SUPELEC-Campus Gif

Ontology evolution is a complex problem. In our work, we focus on issues related to change management, particularly consistency maintenance and we present in this paper, an overview of Change Management Patterns (CMP) that we have defined to model the three dimensions change, inconsistency and resolution alternative. Modelling these patterns and the links between them, helps to propose an automated process guiding and controlling change application while maintaining consistency of the evolved ontology. Change management depends closely on the ontology representation model, we focus on OWL language and we consider change impact on logical consistency as specified in OWL DL layer.

Keywords: Ontology Evolution; Change Management; Consistency; OWL DL.; OWL DL

Domains: Web

Rim Djedidi, Marie-Aude Aufaure. OWL Change Management Patterns. The 5th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP2008), Dec 2008, Rome, Italy. 3 p. ⟨hal-00350540⟩