[OEP] Units and Dimensions reference

Below is a reference to the paper I referred to in the recent telecon.
It is a good source for a quick summary of the Gruber ontology on
physical quantities, units and dimensions. 
Note that As encoded in Ontolingua, Gruber's 'ontology' is not a single
ontology, but rather a collection of modules, each technically single
ontologies. 
Mike
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Ontology Reuse and Application 
Reference: Mike Uschold, Mike Healy, Keith Williamson, Peter Clark,
Steven Woods. Ontology Reuse and Application. In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Formal Ontology and Information Systems -
FOIS'98 (Frontiers in AI and Applications v46), pages 179-192, Ed: N.
Guarino, Amsterdam:IOS Press, 1998. 
Abstract: In this paper, we describe an investigation into the reuse and
application of an existing ontology for the purpose of specifying and
formally developing software for aircraft design. Our goals were to
clearly identify the processes involved in the task, and assess the
cost-effectiveness of reuse. Our conclusions are that (re)using an
ontology is far from an automated process, and instead requires
significant effort from the knowledge engineer. We describe and
illustrate some intrinsic properties of the ontology translation problem
and argue that fully automatic translators are unlikely to be
forthcoming in the foreseeable future. Despite the effort involved, our
subjective conclusions are that in this case knowledge reuse was
cost-effective, and that it would have taken significantly longer to
design the knowledge content of this ontology from scratch in our
application. Our preliminary results are promising for achieving
larger-scale knowledge reuse in the future. 
PDF: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pclark/papers/fois98.pdf 
Compressed postscript:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pclark/papers/fois98.ps.Z 

peter.e.clark@boeing.com <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pclark>

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