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An Ontology-Grounded Representation for Defeasible Professional Ethics Analysis
Lecture notes in computer science, v 16830, pp 285-291
19 Jul 2026
Abstract
Professional ethics boards in fields such as engineering must identify applicable obligations when multiple provisions of the same ethical code generate competing requirements. In prior work we defined a nine-component case representation for professional ethics analysis. This paper presents the ontological implementation of that representation, grounded in the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and classified through the Information Artifact Ontology (IAO). Type-level disjointness is verified by the Pellet OWL-DL reasoner. Three object properties (competesWith, prevailsOver, defeasibleUnder) expose the competition structure between obligations as asserted, SPARQL-queryable relationships between typed individuals. OntServe, an ontology server, instantiates the representation as a knowledge graph of case ontologies extracted from a professional board of ethics archive.
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- Title
- An Ontology-Grounded Representation for Defeasible Professional Ethics Analysis
- Creators
- Christopher B. Rauch - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Lecture notes in computer science, v 16830, pp 285-291
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001858056000025
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105046358541
- Other Identifier
- 991022205979704721