Considering Subcontexts and Multiple Contexts for Defining Semantic Relations between Complex Domains.

GUADALUPE RICO, MARIELA; MARIA LAURA CALIUSCO; CHIOTTI, OMAR; MARIA ROSA GALLI

Puerto Rico

Conferencia; XXXIII Conferencia Latinoamerica de Informática (CLEI 2007); 2007

During the last years, approaches that combine contexts and ontologies taking advantage of their strengths have been developed. However, the way in which these approaches represent the context is not appropriate to define semantic relations between complex domains. These approaches do not deal with the existence of subcontexts and multiple contexts, neither. Using a real case study, this work describes three scenarios discussing the need of defining sub-contexts and multiple contexts to describe completely the semantics of complex domains in order to support semantic relations between them. Based on this analysis, a new way to represent the combination of context and ontology is defined.