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To process this conflict, there are two cases to consider.
1. If O1= O2 ??? O3, Figure 11. shows that we can factor C to the parent ontology
of Q2 and O3, that is, O1. In this way, O4 inherits concept C from a single
ancestor ontology, therefore there are no conflicts.
2. If O1 ??? O2 ??? O3, then we create ontology O5 such that O5 = O2 ??? O3, and
factor C to O5. Figure 12 shows this approach. In this way, the conflict can
be resolved, and the C is at an appropriate level.
Algorithm to Resolve Conflicts
Figure 13 shows the algorithm to resolve conflicts, which is a formal summary of
the cases in the ???Resolve Conflicts in Ontology Organization??? section.
With these conflict processing approaches, when inserting concepts into or deleting
concepts from ontologies, we should be careful to make the ontologies consistent
without conflicts (Ling & Teo, 1993).
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