Ontology design with a granular approach

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Highlights：

• We present a granular view on ontology that: the ontology is granular.

• The ontology is a granular approximation of the conceptualization.

• The conceptual relation granules are ordered tuples.

• We also present a granular ontology design approach.

摘要

•We present a granular view on ontology that: the ontology is granular.•The ontology is a granular approximation of the conceptualization.•The conceptual relation granules are ordered tuples.•We also present a granular ontology design approach.

论文关键词：Ontology design,Granular structure,Approximation,Inconsistency reduction,Optimization subset

论文评审过程：Available online 21 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.019