A Formal Approach of Construction Fuzzy XML Data Model Based on OWL 2 Ontologies

With the rapid development of the Web, a large number of electronic resources have been generated. Currently, XML has been an important tool for data representation and exchange over the Web. The incompleteness of information in the real-world is inherent. To deal with imprecise and uncertain data, fuzzy XML and fuzzy ontology modeling recently receive more attention. In order to represent the fuzzy information, we concentrate on fuzzy information modeling in a fuzzy XML model and fuzzy OWL 2 ontology in this paper. Furthermore, we propose an approach of transforming fuzzy OWL 2 ontologies (including structures and instances) into fuzzy XML models. Then we prove that the sementics of this transformation approach are preserved and propose a transforming example to explain the transforming process. This paper provides a new approach for the fuzzy XML modeling and fuzzy XML mapping based on the fuzzy OWL 2 ontologies.