There are no related works on resolving the conflicts in design ontologies.
Here we discuss some techniques to resolve conflicts in designing ontologies with
hierarchies.
When designing ontologies with hierarchies, it is important to keep the ontologies
consistent. A concept is specified in an ontology if it is either defined or redefined
for the ontology. A redefined concept overloads a similar concept in some ancestor
ontologies. Figure 9 shows the hierarchies of ontologies. The O in Figure 9 represents
ontologies which are displayed as rounded rectangles, and the C in Figure 9
represents concepts defined in ontologies which are displayed as parallelograms.
In this section, we discuss how to resolve the conflicts. An inherited concept is well
defined if it is specified in one and only one ancestor ontology, possibly indirect. A
conflict situation exists when an inherited concept is not well defined, that is, two
or more ancestor ontologies specify the same concept. For example, from Figure 9,
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