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	Title:	Sub-ontologies and ontology views: a theoretical perspective
	Author:	R. Rajugan, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon
	Address:	Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII), Curtin University of Technology, Australia. ' Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII), Curtin University of Technology, Australia. ' Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII), Curtin University of Technology, Australia
	Journal:	International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 2007 - Vol. 2, No.2  pp. 94 - 111
	Abstract:	The success of the Semantic Web (SW) relies heavily on formulation and interoperability of well-defined ontologies and their utilisation. Thus, in this context, it is interesting to investigate concepts like ontology view specification, construction and extraction. Here, in this paper, we address one such issue: ontology views. The proposed ontology view mechanism is a Layered View Model (LVM) and is specified and defined using conceptual and logical level semantics, as opposed to a query language. Our aim here is to provide a detailed theoretical foundation for LVM for ontologies. Also, our proposed concepts are illustrated using an industrial case-study example.
	Keywords:	semantic web; data views; ontology views; conceptual semantics; layered view model.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJMSO.2007.016804
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