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A formal model for fuzzy ontologies.

Au Yeung Ching Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-110). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Semantic Web and Ontologies --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Motivations --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Fuzziness of Concepts --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Typicality of Objects --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Context and Its Effect on Reasoning --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4 --- Contributions --- p.10 / Chapter 1.5 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.11 / Chapter 2 --- Background Study --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Semantic Web --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- Ontologies --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Description Logics --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4 --- Fuzzy Set Theory --- p.23 / Chapter 2.5 --- Concepts and Categorization in Cognitive Psychology --- p.25 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Theory of Concepts --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- Goodness of Example versus Degree of Typicality --- p.28 / Chapter 2.5.3 --- Similarity between Concepts --- p.29 / Chapter 2.5.4 --- Context and Context Effects --- p.31 / Chapter 2.6 --- Handling of Uncertainty in Ontologies and Description Logics --- p.33 / Chapter 2.7 --- Typicality in Models for Knowledge Representation --- p.35 / Chapter 2.8 --- Semantic Similarity in Ontologies and the Semantic Web --- p.39 / Chapter 2.9 --- Contextual Reasoning --- p.41 / Chapter 3 --- A Formal Model of Ontology --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1 --- Rationale --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2 --- Concepts --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3 --- Characteristic Vector and Property Vector --- p.47 / Chapter 3.4 --- Subsumption of Concepts --- p.49 / Chapter 3.5 --- Likeliness of an Individual in a Concept --- p.51 / Chapter 3.6 --- Prototype Vector and Typicality --- p.54 / Chapter 3.7 --- An Example --- p.59 / Chapter 3.8 --- Similarity between Concepts --- p.61 / Chapter 3.9 --- Context and Contextualization of Ontology --- p.65 / Chapter 3.9.1 --- Formal Definitions --- p.67 / Chapter 3.9.2 --- Contextualization of an Ontology --- p.69 / Chapter 3.9.3 --- "Contextualized Subsumption Relations, Likeliness, Typicality and Similarity" --- p.71 / Chapter 4 --- Discussions and Analysis --- p.73 / Chapter 4.1 --- Properties of the Formal Model for Fuzzy Ontologies --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2 --- Likeliness and Typicality --- p.78 / Chapter 4.3 --- Comparison between the Proposed Model and Related Works --- p.81 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Comparison with Traditional Ontology Models --- p.81 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Comparison with Fuzzy Ontologies and DLs --- p.82 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Comparison with Ontologies modeling Typicality of Objects --- p.83 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Comparison with Ontologies modeling Context --- p.84 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- Limitations of the Proposed Model --- p.85 / Chapter 4.4 --- "Significance of Modeling Likeliness, Typicality and Context in Ontologies" --- p.86 / Chapter 4.5 --- Potential Application of the Model --- p.88 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Searching in the Semantic Web --- p.88 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Benefits of the Formal Model of Ontology --- p.90 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.91 / Chapter 5.1 --- Conclusions --- p.91 / Chapter 5.2 --- Future Research Directions --- p.93 / Publications --- p.96 / Bibliography --- p.97

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325745
Date January 2006
ContributorsAu Yeung, Ching Man., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, ix, 110 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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