org.semanticweb.owl
Class CreateValuePartition

java.lang.Object
  org.semanticweb.owl.AbstractCompositeOntologyChange
      org.semanticweb.owl.CreateValuePartition

All Implemented Interfaces:

OWLCompositeOntologyChange

public class CreateValuePartition
extends AbstractCompositeOntologyChange

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 23-Jul-2007

This composite change will create a value partion - see "pattern 2" in "Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets"" (http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-specified-values.)

A value partition is an ontology design pattern which is used to represent a set of closed values for a particular property. For example the property hasSize might only take values from SmallSize, MediumSize and LargeSize. In this case, the value partition is Size, and has the values SmallSize, MediumSize and LargeSize. This composite change will set hasSize to be functional and its range as Size. Size will be covered by SmallSize, MediumSize and LargeSize and these classes which represent the values will be made disjoint with eachother.

Constructor Summary

CreateValuePartition(OWLDataFactory dataFactory, OWLClass valuePartitionClass, java.util.Set<OWLClass> valuePartionClasses, OWLObjectProperty valuePartitionProperty, OWLOntology targetOntology)
Creates a composite change that will create a value partition.

Method Summary

java.util.List<OWLOntologyChange>

getChanges() Gets the changes which compose this composite change.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CreateValuePartition

public CreateValuePartition(OWLDataFactory dataFactory,
                            OWLClass valuePartitionClass,
                            java.util.Set<OWLClass> valuePartionClasses,
                            OWLObjectProperty valuePartitionProperty,
                            OWLOntology targetOntology)

Creates a composite change that will create a value partition.

Parameters:

dataFactory - A data factory which can be used to create the necessary axioms

valuePartitionClass - The class which represents the value partition.

valuePartionClasses - The classes that represent the various values of the value partition.

valuePartitionProperty - the property which should be used in conjunction with the value partition.

targetOntology - The target ontology which the axioms that are necessary to create the value partition will be added to.

Method Detail

getChanges

public java.util.List<OWLOntologyChange> getChanges()

Description copied from interface: OWLCompositeOntologyChange

Gets the changes which compose this composite change. Once this method has been invoked, it will always return the same list of changes.

Returns:

A list of ontology changes.