Multirepresentation in Ontologies

The objective of this paper is to define an ontology language to support multiple representations of ontologies. In our research, we focus on the logic-based ontology languages. As a matter of fact, we will consider only languages that are based on description logics (DLs). At first, we propose a sub-language of DL as an ontology language. Furthermore we achieve multiple representations of ontological concepts by extending such sub-language through the use of stamping mechanism proposed in the context of multiple representation of spatial databases. The proposed language should offer a modest solution to the problem of multirepresentation ontologies.