Categorization and Recognition ofOntology Refactoring Pattern

Ontologies play an important role in knowledge representationfor sharing information and collaboratively developing knowledgebases. They are changed, adapted and reused in different applicationsand domains resulting in multiple versions of an ontology. The comparisonof different versions and the analysis of changes at a higher levelof abstraction may be insightful to understand the changes that wereapplied to an ontology. While there is existing work on detecting (syntactical)differences and changes in ontologies, there is still a need inanalyzing ontology changes at a higher level of abstraction like ontologyevolution or refactoring pattern. In our approach we start from aclassification of model refactoring patterns found in software engineeringfor identifying such refactoring patterns in OWL ontologies using DLreasoning to recognize these patterns.[...]