Ontology Integration by Using Context and Ontology Violation Check.

Abstract

By integrating ontologies, knowledge represented in these ontologies can be extended and reused for purposes like building new ontologies, composing advanced services on the semantic web and sharing knowledge. The ontology integration is a difficult task because of semantic barriers. In this paper, an approach of building context for ontology integration is presented. The integration of the ontologies is carried out by using context and ontology violation check. To provide context for the integration, context rules are utilized for interpretation and reasoning across ontologies. The ontology violation check is applied in the process of building ontology intersection under the open world assumption. As a result of the integration, an ontology intersection is produced, which is larger than the intersection of entities, but not larger than the union of the original entities.