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Agents and the Semantic Web
- IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
, 2001
"... Many challenges of bringing communicating multiagent systems to the Web require ontologies. The integration of agent technology and ontologies could significantly affect the use of Web services and the ability to extend programs to perform tasks for users more efficiently and with less human interve ..."
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Many challenges of bringing communicating multiagent systems to the Web require ontologies. The integration of agent technology and ontologies could significantly affect the use of Web services and the ability to extend programs to perform tasks for users more efficiently and with less human intervention.
Similarity Flooding: A Versatile Graph Matching Algorithm and Its Application to Schema Matching
, 2002
"... Matching elements of two data schemas or two data instances plays a key role in data warehousing, e-business, or even biochemical applications. In this paper we present a matching algorithm based on a fixpoint computation that is usable across different scenarios. The algorithm takes two graphs (sch ..."
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Matching elements of two data schemas or two data instances plays a key role in data warehousing, e-business, or even biochemical applications. In this paper we present a matching algorithm based on a fixpoint computation that is usable across different scenarios. The algorithm takes two graphs (schemas, catalogs, or other data structures) as input, and produces as output a mapping between corresponding nodes of the graphs. Depending on the matching goal, a subset of the mapping is chosen using filters. After our algorithm runs, we expect a human to check and if necessary adjust the results. As a matter of fact, we evaluate the ‘accuracy ’ of the algorithm by counting the number of needed adjustments. We conducted a user study, in which our accuracy metric was used to estimate the labor savings that the users could obtain by utilizing our algorithm to obtain an initial matching. Finally, we illustrate how our matching algorithm is deployed as one of several high-level operators in an implemented testbed for managing information models and mappings.
Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema
, 2002
"... RDF and RDF Schema are two W3C standards aimed at enriching the Web with machine-processable semantic data. ..."
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RDF and RDF Schema are two W3C standards aimed at enriching the Web with machine-processable semantic data.
Ontology Mapping: The State of the Art
, 2003
"... Ontology mapping is seen as a solution provider in today's landscape of ontology research. As the number of ontologies that are made publicly available and accessible on the Web increases steadily, so does the need for applications to use them. A single ontology is no longer enough to support t ..."
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Ontology mapping is seen as a solution provider in today's landscape of ontology research. As the number of ontologies that are made publicly available and accessible on the Web increases steadily, so does the need for applications to use them. A single ontology is no longer enough to support the tasks envisaged by a distributed environment like the Semantic Web. Multiple ontologies need to be accessed from several applications. Mapping could provide a common layer from which several ontologies could be accessed and hence could exchange information in semantically sound manners. Developing such mappings has been the focus of a variety of works originating from diverse communities over a number of years. In this article we comprehensively review and present these works. We also provide insights on the pragmatics of ontology mapping and elaborate on a theoretical approach for defining ontology mapping.
An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments
- Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems, Knowledge Engineering Review
, 2003
"... Ontologies are a key component for building open and dynamic distributed pervasive computing systems in which agents and devices share contextual information. We describe our use of the Web Ontology Language OWL and other tools for building the foundation ontology for the Context Broker Archite ..."
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Ontologies are a key component for building open and dynamic distributed pervasive computing systems in which agents and devices share contextual information. We describe our use of the Web Ontology Language OWL and other tools for building the foundation ontology for the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA), a new context-aware pervasive computing framework. The current version of the CoBrA ontology models the basic concepts of people, agents, places, and presentation events in an intelligent meeting room environment. It provides a vocabulary of terms for classes and properties suitable for building practical systems that model context in pervasive computing environments. We also describe our ongoing research in developing an OWL inference engine using Flora-2 and in extending the present CoBrA ontology to use the DAML spatial and temporal ontologies.
The knowledge model of Protege-2000: combining interoperability and flexibility
, 2001
"... Knowledge-based systems have become ubiquitous in recent years. The World-Wide Web consortium is developing the Resource Description Framework (RDF)---a system for annotating even Web pages with knowledge elements. Knowledge-base developers need to be able to share and reuse knowledge bases that ..."
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Knowledge-based systems have become ubiquitous in recent years. The World-Wide Web consortium is developing the Resource Description Framework (RDF)---a system for annotating even Web pages with knowledge elements. Knowledge-base developers need to be able to share and reuse knowledge bases that they build. Therefore, interoperability among different knowledge-representation systems is essential. The Open Knowledge-Base Connectivity protocol (OKBC) is a common query and construction interface for frame-based systems that facilitates this interoperability. Protg-2000 is an OKBC-compatible knowledge-base--editing environment developed in our laboratory.
RQL: A Declarative Query Language for RDF
"... Real-scale Semantic Web applications, such as Web Portals and E-Marketplaces, require the management of voluminous metadata repositories containing descriptive information (i.e., metadata) about the available Web resources and services. Better knowledge about the meaning, usage, accessibility or qua ..."
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Real-scale Semantic Web applications, such as Web Portals and E-Marketplaces, require the management of voluminous metadata repositories containing descriptive information (i.e., metadata) about the available Web resources and services. Better knowledge about the meaning, usage, accessibility or quality of these resources and services will considerably facilitate the automated processing of both Web content and services. In this context, the Resource Description Framework (RDF) enables the creation and exchange of metadata as any other Web data. Although large volumes of RDF descriptions are already appearing (e.g., as exported Portal catalogs or service descriptions), sufficiently expressive declarative languages for querying both RDF descriptions and schemas are still missing. In this paper, we propose RQL, a new RDF query language, relying on a formal graph model that permits the interpretation of superimposed resource descriptions. RQL is an OQL-inspired adaptation of XML query languages to the peculiarities of RDF but, foremost, is an extension of this functionality for uniformly querying both descriptions and schemas. We illustrate the syntax, semantics and core functionality of RQL bymeans of a set of benchmark queries and report on the performance of RSSDB, our persistent RDF Store, for storing and querying voluminous RDF descriptions.
Reducing OWL entailment to description logic satisfiability
, 2004
"... We show how to reduce ontology entailment for the OWL DL and OWL Lite ontology languages to knowledge base satisfiability in (respectively) the SHOIN(D) and SHIF(D) description logics. This is done by first establishing a correspondence between OWL ontologies and description logic knowledge bases an ..."
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We show how to reduce ontology entailment for the OWL DL and OWL Lite ontology languages to knowledge base satisfiability in (respectively) the SHOIN(D) and SHIF(D) description logics. This is done by first establishing a correspondence between OWL ontologies and description logic knowledge bases and then by showing how knowledge base entailment can be reduced to knowledge base satisfiability.
Dynamic Ontologies on the Web
, 2000
"... We discuss the problems associated with managing ontologies in distributed environments such as the Web. The Web poses unique problems for the use of ontologies because of the rapid evolution and autonomy of web sites. We present SHOE, a web-based knowledge representation language that supports ..."
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We discuss the problems associated with managing ontologies in distributed environments such as the Web. The Web poses unique problems for the use of ontologies because of the rapid evolution and autonomy of web sites. We present SHOE, a web-based knowledge representation language that supports multiple versions of ontologies. We describe SHOE in the terms of a logic that separates data from ontologies and allows ontologies to provide different perspectives on the data. We then discuss the features of SHOE that address ontology versioning, the effects of ontology revision on SHOE web pages, and methods for implementing ontology integration using SHOE's extension and version mechanisms.
An Infrastructure for the Rapid Development of XML-based Architecture Description Languages
- In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2002
, 2002
"... Research and experimentation in software architectures over the past decade have yielded a plethora of software architecture description languages (ADLs). Continuing innovation indicates that it is reasonable to expect more new ADLs, or at least ADL features. This research process is impeded by the ..."
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Research and experimentation in software architectures over the past decade have yielded a plethora of software architecture description languages (ADLs). Continuing innovation indicates that it is reasonable to expect more new ADLs, or at least ADL features. This research process is impeded by the difficulty and cost associated with developing new notations. An architect in need of a unique set of modeling features must either develop a new architecture description language from scratch or undertake the daunting task of modifying an existing language. In either case, it is unavoidable that a significant effort will be expended in building or adapting tools to support the language. To remedy this situation, we have developed an infrastructure for the rapid development of new architecture description languages. Key aspects of the infrastructure are its XML-based modular extension mechanism, its base set of reusable and customizable architectural modeling constructs, and its equally important set of flexible support tools. This paper introduces the infrastructure and demonstrates its value in the context of several real-world applications.
