How to Agree to Disagree - Managing Ontological Perspectives using Standpoint Logic

Lucía Gómez Álvarez, Sebastian Rudolph, Hannes Strass

Abstract: The importance of taking individual, potentially conflicting perspectives into account when dealing with knowledge has been widely recognised. Many existing ontology management approaches fully merge knowledge perspectives, which may require weakening in order to maintain consistency; others represent the distinct views in an entirely detached way.