A FCA-Based Method for Developing Process Ontologies

Abstract

This paper is concerned about ontologies of intentional and unintentional processes. Specifically, this paper describes a methodology for developing processes ontologies. Typically, domain ontologies are developed in an ad-hoc fashion, often without sound explanations of the class structure. To avoid this, we propose a methodology based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) as way to assist the development of the domain ontology. FCA is an analysis technique for knowledge processing based on applied lattice and order theory. The methodology is illustrated with the development of an explosions ontology.