@inproceedings{Bezerra_Freitas_Euzenat_Zimmermann:Colibri2009,
 author    = {Camila Bezerra and Fred Freitas and J\'er\^ome Euzenat and Antoine Zimmermann},
 title     = {{A}n {A}pproach for {O}ntology {M}odularization},
 year      = {2009},
 pages     = {507--514},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of {C}olibri - {C}olloquium of {C}omputation: {B}razil / {INRIA}, {C}ooperations, {A}dvances and {C}hallenges},
 month     = jul,
 publisher = {Bolzano University Press},
 editor    = {Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux},
 isbn      = {978-88-6046-008-5},
 language  = {en},
 url       = {http://www.sbc.org.br/bibliotecadigital/download.php?paper=1509},
 keywords  = {modular ontologies},
 abstract  = {Ontology modularization could help overcome the problem of defining a fragment of an existing ontology to be reused, in order to enable ontology developers to include only those concepts and relations that are relevant for the application they are modeling an ontology for. This paper presents a concrete tool that incorporates an approach to ontology modularization that inherits some of the main principles from object-oriented software engineering, which are encapsulation and information hiding. What motivated us to track that direction is the fact that most ontology approaches to the problem focus on linking ontologies rather than building modules that can encapsulate foreign parts of ontologies (or other modules) that can be managed more easily.}
}