Ganter, Bernhard; Stumme, Gerd Creation and merging of ontology top-levels. (English) Zbl 1274.68485 de Moor, Aldo (ed.) et al., Conceptual structures for knowledge creation and communication. 11th international conference on conceptual structures, ICCS 2003, Dresden, Germany, July 21–25, 2003. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-40576-3/pbk). Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2746, 131-145 (2003). Summary: We provide a new method for systematically structuring the top-down level of ontologies. It is based on an interactive, top-down knowledge acquisition process, which assures that the knowledge engineer considers all possible cases while avoiding redundant acquisition. The method is suited especially for creating/merging the top part(s) of the ontologies, where high accuracy is required, and for supporting the merging of two (or more) ontologies on that level.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1026.00024]. MSC: 68T30 Knowledge representation Software:OilEd PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{B. Ganter} and \textit{G. Stumme}, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2746, 131--145 (2003; Zbl 1274.68485) Full Text: DOI