Paper Info
Title
A Formal Foundation For Ontology-Alignment Interaction Models
Abstract
Ontology alignment foundations are hard to find in the literature. The abstract nature of the topic and the diverse means of practice make it difficult to capture it in a universal formal foundation. We argue that such a lack of formality hinders further development and convergence of practices, and in particular, prevents us from achieving greater levels of automation. In this article we present a formal foundation for ontology alignment that is based on interaction models between heterogeneous agents on the Semantic Web. We use the mathematical notion of information flow in a distributed system to ground our three hypotheses of enabling semantic interoperability and we use a motivating example throughout the article: how to progressively align two ontologies of research quality assessment through meaning coordination. We conclude the article with the presentation-in an executable specification language-of such an ontology-alignment interaction model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.4018/jswis.2007040103
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON SEMANTIC WEB AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
agent interaction, information-flow theory, ontologies, semantic matching
Ontology (information science),Data mining,Ontology alignment,Semantic Web Stack,Formality,Computer science,Semantic Web,Semantic interoperability,Upper ontology,Semantic matching
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
2
1552-6283
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.94
22
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W. Marco Schorlemmer1111385.18
Yannis Kalfoglou2105774.48
Manuel Atencia38810.79