A Novel Approach for Extracting Well-Founded Ontology Views

When the size of an ontology increases, it becomes hard to be managed. Ontology view extraction is an approach that can be used for overcoming the challenges that arise in this scenario. In this context, an ontology view is a subset of an ontology tailored to a specific set of user requirements. Well-founded ontology views were recently proposed as ontology views that follow well-founded ontological principles, which ensures some desirable ontological properties. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for extracting well-founded ontology views, which is more flexible than the previous approach. We also present a method for evaluating the quality of approaches for extracting ontology views. We apply this method for demonstrating that our novel approach produces ontology views that are more accurate than those produced by the previous approach. We illustrate our approaches using a domain ontology for Petrography.