Conservativity Principle Violations for Ontology Alignment: Survey and Trends

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Yahia Atig 1,* Ahmed Zahaf 2 Djelloul Bouchiha 1

1. Ctr Univ Naama, Inst. Sciences and Technologies, Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science, Algeria

2. University Dr. Tahar Moulay of Saida, Algeria

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2016.07.09

Received: 23 Sep. 2015 / Revised: 10 Feb. 2016 / Accepted: 15 Apr. 2016 / Published: 8 Jul. 2016

Index Terms

Conservativity Principle Violations, Ontology Alignment, Ontology Matching, Semantic Web

Abstract

Ontology matching techniques are a solution to overcome the problem of interoperability between ontologies. However, the generated mappings suffer from logical defects that influence their usefulness. In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the problem so-called conservativity principle; alignment between ontologies should never generate new knowledge compared to those generated by reasoning solely on ontologies. We also study the sub-problems; Ontology change and Satisfiability preservation problems and compare the related works and their way to detect and repair conservativity principle. At the end we present a set of open research issues.

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Yahia Atig, Ahmed Zahaf, Djelloul Bouchiha, "Conservativity Principle Violations for Ontology Alignment: Survey and Trends", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), Vol.8, No.7, pp.61-71, 2016. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2016.07.09

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