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Using a System of Heterogeneous Ontology Design Patterns to Develop Ontologies of Scientific Subject Domains

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This paper presents an approach to developing ontologies of scientific subject domains (SSDs) that is based on the application of a system of heterogeneous ontology design patterns (ODPs), which are documented descriptions of proven solutions to typical problems of ontological modeling. This system includes both universal patterns used to describe typical ontology constructions and patterns focused on scientific knowledge representation. This ODP system not only allows all entities of an ontology developed for a particular SSD to be consistently represented, thus excluding many errors in the process of ontological modeling, but also makes it possible to save a significant amount of resources spent on the development of an ontology.

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Zagorulko, Y.A., Borovikova, O.I. Using a System of Heterogeneous Ontology Design Patterns to Develop Ontologies of Scientific Subject Domains. Program Comput Soft 46, 273–280 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768820040064

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