SEKT WP4 Ontology Mediation D4'4'1

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SEKT WP4 Ontology Mediation D4.4.1

• Jos de Bruijn
• Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
• University of Innsbruck
• jos.debruijn_at_deri.org
• 2004-10-12

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D4.4.1

• Survey on Ontology Mismatches
• Scenarios for mediation
• Mapping Language
• Mapping OWL ontologies
• Mapping WSML ontologies
• Mapping Discovery
• General Process based on Features and Heuristics
• Efficiency Considerations
• Use of Machine Learning Techniques
• Mapping Framework
• Mapping Process
• Mapping creation
• Merging ontologies
• Storage
• Run-time Mediation

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Scenarios for Mediation

• Previously published as D4.4.1.1 already partly
  included in D4.2.1
• Generic Use Cases
• Instance Mediation
• Ontology Merging
• Creating Mappings
• Scenarios for Mediation
• Data Integration
• Ontology Evolution
• Browsing and Querying

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Survey on Ontology Mismatches

• Fausto Giunchiglia and T. Walsh. A theory of
  abstraction. Artificial Intelligence,
  57(2-3)323390, 1992.
• M. Benerecetti, Paolo Bouquet, and C. Ghidini.
  Contextual reasoning distilled. Journal of
  Theoretical and Experimental Artificial
  Intelligence, 12(3)279305, July 2000.
• Jerome Euzenat. Towards a principled approach
  to semantic interoperability. In Auncion
  Gomez-Perez, Michael Gruninger, Heiner
  Stuckenschmidt, and Michael Uschold, editors,
  Proc. IJCAI2001 workshop on ontology and
  information sharing, pages 2925, Seattle, WA,
  USA, 2001.
• Oscar Corcho. A declarative approach to ontology
  translation with knowledge preservation. PhD
  thesis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 2004.
• Adil Hameed, Alun Preece, and Derek Sleeman.
  Ontology reconciliation, 231250 12. Internatial
  handbooks on information systems.
  Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
• Chiara Ghdini and Fausto Giunchiglia. A semantics
  for abstraction. In Proceedings of the European
  Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-04),
  2004.
• Pepijn R. S. Visser, Dean M. Jones, T. J. M.
  Bench-Capon, and M. J. R. Shave. An analysis of
  ontological mismatches Heterogeneity versus
  interoperability. In AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium
  on Ontological Engineering, Stanford, USA, 1997.
• Michel Klein. Combining and relating ontologies
  an analysis of problems and solutions. In
  Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Michael Gruninger, Heiner
  Stuckenschmidt, and Michael Uschold, editors,
  Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing,
  IJCAI01, Seattle, USA, August 45, 2001.

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Mapping Discovery (Marc)
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Mapping Framework

• Ontology Language
• Mapping Patterns Specification Language
• Ontology Mapping language
• Ontologies
• Mapping Patterns
• Ontology Mappings
• Data source connectors
• Mapping tool
• Mediation component

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Mapping Process

• Mapping Creation
• Merging Ontologies
• Storage
• Run-time Mediation
• Instance transformation
• Querying
• Instance Unification