Hi there
A general question: are there (implemented) operations of conversions in OWL-DL
of:
1. An individual into a class
2. A class into an individual
If so, what are they called? Could you direct me to relevant references in the
literature describing these operations?
My hunch at the moment is that in Protégé 1. and 2. above would be refactoring
operations, although in the Refactoring Menu I can't see any obvious options
that would suggest 1. or 2..
More generally I would think that the following terminology may have been used
for such operations:
a. Abstraction or Conceptualization
Vs. Vs.
b. Concretization or Reification
( Note that reification would normally be applied to relations/properties
rather than classes. Then again, if a class can be considered as a 1-ary
relation (can it?), one could reify a class as well )
Thanks, Jos
