global-journal-of-computer-science-and-technology-c-software-data-engineering Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - C: Software & Data Engineering 0975-4350 0975-4172 Global Journals Publishing Group Incorporated 54949 The Method of Normalizing OWL 2 DL Ontologies SadowskaMalgorzata HuzarZbigniew POLAND, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology 15 01 2018 18 C2 1 13

The paper proposes a method of normalizing OWL 2 DL ontologies. The method introduces rules aimed at refactoring OWL 2 constructs. The proposed transformations only use a subset of OWL 2 constructs and enable to present an input OWL 2 ontology in a new but semantically equivalent form. The normalization is motivated by the fact that normalized OWL 2 DL ontologies have a unified structure of axioms so that they can be compared in an algorithmic way.

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The paper proposes a method of normalizing OWL 2 DL ontologies. The method introduces rules aimed at refactoring OWL 2 constructs. The proposed transformations only use a subset of OWL 2 constructs and enable to present an input OWL 2 ontology in a new but semantically equivalent form. The normalization is motivated by the fact that normalized OWL 2 DL ontologies have a unified structure of axioms so that they can be compared in an algorithmic way.