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Upper Ontology Summit March 14, 2006

Explore methods to relate existing upper ontologies, create a common subset ontology, and analyze ontology relationships using axioms. Process Specification Language (PSL) for process specification and modularity. Opportunities for rigorous approach in ontology sharing and reusability.

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Upper Ontology Summit March 14, 2006

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  1. Upper Ontology SummitMarch 14, 2006 Michael Gruninger Semantic Technologies Laboratory University of Toronto

  2. Goals • Develop methods to relate the existing upper ontologies to each other. • Ontologies reusing an upper level ontology • Ontologies sharing an upper level ontology • Create a common subset ontology that is compatible with all of the linked upper ontologies.

  3. Relationships among Ontologies • Theory T1 generalizes theory T2 if and only if T1 is definably interpretable in a theory T3 and T2 is a consistent extension of T3. • Problem: Given two theories T1 and T2, determine whether there exists a nontrivial theory that generalizes both.

  4. Requirements • What do we need so that we can prove that one ontology is a generalization of another? • the ontology must consist of a consistent set of axioms • the ontology must axiomatize its intended models • Evaluation of the relationships between ontologies is made using their axioms alone; it cannot rely on intended models of concepts that are not axiomatized. • If the axioms of an ontology are insufficient to capture their users' intended semantics, then there is little progress that can be made towards integration

  5. Process Specification Language • PSL (ISO 18629) is a modular, extensible ontology capturing concepts required for process specification • There are currently 300 concepts across 50 extensions of a common core theory (PSL-Core), each with a set of first-order axioms written using Common Logic (ISO 24707). • Two kinds of extensions: • Core theories • Definitional extensions

  6. Methodology • Specify class of structures • Existence Theorem • Show that the class of structures is nonempty • Classification Theorem • Characterize the structures up to isomorphism • Satisfiability Theorem • Show that any structure in the class satisfies the axioms of the ontology • Axiomatizability Theorem • Show that any model of the axioms is equivalent to a structure in the class

  7. Modularity and PSL Activity Occurrences Complex Activities Atomic Activities Discrete States Subactivity Occurrence Trees PSL-Core

  8. Definitional Extensions • Preserving semantics is equivalent to preserving models of the axioms. • preserving models = isomorphism • Classify models by using invariants (properties of models that are preserved by isomorphism). • automorphism groups, endomorphism semigroups • Classes of activities and objects are specified using these invariants.

  9. Summary • We have an opportunity to take a rigorous approach to the sharability and reusability of upper level ontologies • This may require extensions or modification of existing ontologies • We can replace the philosophical debates with well-posed logical problems

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