Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Reference Hub8
A Formal Foundation for Ontology-Alignment Interaction Models

A Formal Foundation for Ontology-Alignment Interaction Models

Marco Schorlemmer, Yannis Kalfoglou, Manuel Atencia
Copyright: © 2007 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1552-6283|EISSN: 1552-6291|ISSN: 1552-6283|EISBN13: 9781615204892|EISSN: 1552-6291|DOI: 10.4018/jswis.2007040103
Cite Article Cite Article

MLA

Schorlemmer, Marco, et al. "A Formal Foundation for Ontology-Alignment Interaction Models." IJSWIS vol.3, no.2 2007: pp.50-68. http://doi.org/10.4018/jswis.2007040103

APA

Schorlemmer, M., Kalfoglou, Y., & Atencia, M. (2007). A Formal Foundation for Ontology-Alignment Interaction Models. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 3(2), 50-68. http://doi.org/10.4018/jswis.2007040103

Chicago

Schorlemmer, Marco, Yannis Kalfoglou, and Manuel Atencia. "A Formal Foundation for Ontology-Alignment Interaction Models," International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) 3, no.2: 50-68. http://doi.org/10.4018/jswis.2007040103

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite Full-Issue Download

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 interac-tion model.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.