International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS)
IJITCS Vol. 8, No. 8, 8 Aug. 2016
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Kernel Contraction and Consolidation of Alignment under Ontology Change
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Author(s)
Ahmed Zahaf
1,2,*
Mimoun Malki
2,3
Index Terms
Ontology Change, Alignment revision, Base Revision, Kernel Contraction, Kernel Consolidation
Abstract
Alignment overcomes divergence in the specification of the semantics of vocabularies by different but overlapping ontologies. Therefore, it enhances semantic interoperability for many web based applications. However, ontology change following applications new requirements or new perception of domain knowledges can leads to undesirable knowledge such as inconsistent and therefore to a useless alignment. Ontologies and alignments are encoded in knowledge bases allowing applications to store only some explicit knowledge while they derive implicit ones by applying reasoning services on these knowledge bases. This underlying representation of ontologies and alignments leads us to follow base revision theory to deal with alignment revision under ontology change. For that purpose, we adapt kernel contraction framework to design rational operators and to formulate the set of postulates that characterize each class of these operators. We demonstrate the connection between each class of operators and the set of postulates that characterize them. Finally, we present algorithms to compute alignment kernels and incision functions. Kernels are sets of correspondences responsible of undesirable knowledge following alignment semantics. Incision functions determine the sets of correspondences to eliminate in order to restore alignment consistency or to realize a successful contraction.
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Ahmed ZAHAF, Mimoun MALKI, "Kernel Contraction and Consolidation of Alignment under Ontology Change", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), Vol.8, No.8, pp.31-42, 2016. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2016.08.04
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