Uma técnica e ferramenta orientadas por objetivos para a construção de ontologias de aplicação

Abstract

Application ontologies are knowledge representation structures capable of expressing a set of entities from a given domain, their relationships and axioms and has been used by modern Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) in decision-making. Building application ontologies require a clear understanding of the goals of the KBS under development. Provide support for the formalization of these goals in an application ontology is the fundamental idea of GAODT. GAODT, the main contribution of this work, is a goal-oriented technique for building application ontologies. To provide support to its application a software tool named GAODTool was developed and used in an evaluation that consisted in building “InheritanceLaw”, an application ontology to support decision making in the domain of Intestate Succession, branch of law that governs the transfer of properties from someone after his death.