Aspect-oriented ontology development

Aspect-Oriented Ontology Development takes inspiration from Aspect-Oriented Programming and provides a novel approach to the problems of ontology modularization and metamodeling by adding support for reified axioms. The book chapter describes the syntax and semantics of Aspect-Oriented Ontology Development, explains its benefits and possible weaknesses as compared to other existing modularization approaches and presents a set of application scenarios as well as a set of supporting tools.