Ontology patterns have been pointed out as a promising approach for ontology engineering. The goal of this paper is to clarify concepts and the terminology used in Ontology Engineering to talk about the notion of ontology patterns taking into account already well-established notions of patterns in Software Engineering.
['Ricardo de Almeida Falbo', 'Giancarlo Guizzardi', 'Aldo Gangemi', 'Valentina Presutti']
Ontology patterns: clarifying concepts and terminology