Christian Wende, Florian Heidenreich. A Model-based Product-Line for Scalable Ontology Languages. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Model-Driven Product Line Engineering. Online proceedings, jun 2009.
Research in the area of semantic web brought up a plethora of languages to represent ontologies. They all differ in expressiveness and reasoning efficiency. Thus, the choice of a specific language means a trade-off between reasoning capabilities and performance. This paper outlines how techniques from product-line engineering can be combined with model-based language engineering to allow for organising ontology languages in a language family and configuring them for concrete use cases.