Patent ID: 8898103
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G06F,G06N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating an ontology document indicating a structure of classes of items within a domain, which items belong to which class, and which operations each class supports, the method comprising: inputting a domain description including information about items in the domain and relationships between the items; and accessing a data structure and an operation structure, wherein the data structure is a domain-independent model of items and relationships between items for characterizing items described in the domain description into classes; and the operation structure is a domain-independent list of operations which, when applied to a domain description, define processing rules for the classes of items, the operation structure including operations having a creation aspect; the data structure comprising at least progenitor items as a class of items each able to contain only progeny items created by the progenitor item as a consequence of the progenitor item accepting an operation from the operation structure invoked against it; the method further comprising: