A User-driven and a Semantic-based Ontology Mapping Evolution
Approach
Abstract
Systems or software agents do not always agree on the
information being shared, justifying the use of distinct ontologies for
the same domain. For achieving interoperability, declarative mappings
are used as a basis for exchanging information between systems.
However, in dynamic environments like the Web and the Semantic Web,
ontologies constantly evolve, potentially leading to invalid ontology
mappings. This paper presents two approaches for managing ontology
mapping evolution: a user-centric approach in which the user defines
the mapping evolution strategies to be applied automatically by the
system, and a semantic-based approach, in which the ontology’s
evolution logs are exploited to capture the semantics of changes and
then adapted to (and applied on at) the ontology mapping evolution
process.
Last update:
2009-02--04
10.1109/MSPEC.2010.5644757
