Towards a topical ontology of fraud

The paper describes the concept of topical ontology and the development of a topical ontology of fraud A topical ontology is concerned with a set of themes identified to represent the knowledge structure of the domain expert It reflects the specific scope, perspectives and granularity of conceptualization about the themes It sits on the base ontology, integrates multiple domain ontology and serves as the knowledge framework for application ontologies It is architected with a basic conceptual schema and configuration design pattern to capture the knowledge structure as well as concepts and relations of the knowledge.