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 the area of semantic technologies, benchmarking and systematic evaluation is not yet as
established as in other areas of computer science, eg, information retrieval. In spite of …

Alignments represent correspondences between entities of two ontologies. They are
produced from the ontologies by ontology matchers. In order for matchers to exchange …

The quality of the results of a data mining process strongly depends on the quality of the
data it processes. A good result is more likely to obtain the more useful background …

Simple ontology alignments, largely studied in the literature, link a single entity of a source
ontology to a single entity of a target ontology. A limitation of these alignments is their lack of …

Semantic Sensor Web (SSW) links the semantic web technique with the sensor network,
which utilizes sensor ontology to describe sensor information. Annotating sensor data with …

Abstract Autonomous Systems (ASs) that work in the open, dynamic environment are
required to share their data entities and semantics to implement the co-operations. Typically …

AgreementMakerLight (AML) is a system for automated ontology matching that is
characterized by its efficiency, extensibility, and ability to incorporate external knowledge. In …

Interoperability between heterogeneous ontological descriptions can be performed through
ontology mediation techniques. At the heart of ontology mediation lies the alignment: a …

Ontology alignment has taken a critical place for helping heterogeneous resources to
interoperate. It has been studied for over a decade, and over that time many alignment …