Extensions of Generic DOL for Generic Ontology Design Patterns
This work addresses the need for more flexible and expressive ontology design tools for researchers and practitioners in knowledge representation, though it appears incremental as an extension of an existing language.
The paper tackled the problem of limited expressivity in Generic DOL for ontology design patterns by introducing new language constructs like sequential and optional parameters, list parameters with recursion, and local sub-patterns, resulting in increased generality and expressivity as demonstrated with non-trivial patterns such as generic value sets and nested qualitatively graded relations in an application domain.
Generic ontologies were introduced as an extension (Generic DOL) of the Distributed Ontology, Modeling and Specification Language, DOL, with the aim to provide a language for Generic Ontology Design Patterns. In this paper we present a number of new language constructs that increase the expressivity and the generality of Generic DOL, among them sequential and optional parameters, list parameters with recursion, and local sub-patterns. These are illustrated with non-trivial patterns: generic value sets and (nested) qualitatively graded relations, demonstrated as definitional building blocks in an application domain.