An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

In recent years, the decentralized development of ontologies has led to the generation of
multiple ontologies of overlap** knowledge. This heterogeneity problem can be tackled by …

Ontology matching is an integral part for establishing semantic interoperability. One of the
main challenges within the ontology matching operation is semantic heterogeneity, ie …

Data integration is considered a classic research field and a pressing need within the
information science community. Ontologies play a critical role in such processes by …

Taxonomies are widely used to classify information, and multiple (possibly competing)
taxonomies often exist for the same domain. Given a set of correspondences between two …

Merging of ontologies is a frequently addressed problem in the ontology literature. This
paper argues that in general two even very similar ontologies cannot be merged. Further …

With the emergence of the Semantic Web, ontologies are being exposed on the Web to
support a variety of applications, including enhanced search and discovery, rapid enterprise …

The most common matching applications, eg, ontology matching, focus on the computation
of the correspondences holding between the nodes of graph structures (eg, concepts in two …

This Ontologies are widely used as a means for solving the information heterogeneity
problems on the web because of their capability to provide explicit meaning to the …

Purpose–The discovery of the “right” ontology or ontology part is a central ingredient for
effective ontology re‐use. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach for supporting …