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OTM 2002: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE pp 1132–1151Cite as

Information-Flow-Based Ontology Mapping

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As ontologies become ever more important for semantically- rich information exchange and a crucial element for supporting knowledge sharing in a large distributed environment, like the Web, the demand for sharing them increases accordingly. One way of achieving this ambitious goal is to provide mechanised ways for mapping and merging ontologies. This has been the focus of recent research in knowledge engineering. However, we observe a dearth of mapping methods that are based on a strong theoretical ground, are easy to replicate in different settings, and use semantically-rich mechanisms for performing ontology mapping. In this paper, we aim to fill in these gaps with a method we propose for Information-Flow-based ontology mapping. Our method draws on the proven theoretical ground of Information Flow and channel theory, and we provide a systematic and mechanised methodology for deploying it on a distributed environment to perform ontology mapping among a variety of different ontologies. We applied our method at a large-scale experiment of mapping five ontologies modelling Computer Science departments in five UK Universities. We elaborate on a theory for ontology mapping, analyse the mechanised steps of applying it, and assess its ontology mapping results.

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  1. Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton

    Yannis Kalfoglou

  2. Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

    Marco Schorlemmer

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    Robert Meersman

  2. RMIT University School of Computer Science and IT, GPO Box 2476V, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Zahir Tari

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Kalfoglou, Y., Schorlemmer, M. (2002). Information-Flow-Based Ontology Mapping. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2519. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36124-3_72

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