A Realist Framework for Ontologies and the Semantic Web

The realist approach in Ontology Engineering speaks about representing concepts in reality that science wants to uncover. An intelligent system is highly compatible with all, if it is largely consistent, high degree integrated and having minimum redundancy to represent the stored data and knowledge. This paper discusses the representation of elements of realist ontologies by the syntactical categories of an ontology description language, namely the Extended Hierarchical Censored Production Rule (EHCPRs) framework. The EHCPR specification is quite close to the representation of entities in the real world. The representational units in the EHCPRs ontology map one by one to the realist framework. After providing the suitability of EHCPRs Ontology Language for representing realist ontologies, a mapping is provided from the widely-used Web Ontology Language (OWL) into the EHCPRs Ontology Language. This will prove as an important milestone towards constructing instrumental knowledge bases among the Semantic Web communities. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)