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Toward OWL Restriction Reconciliation in Merging Knowledge

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Merging ontologies is the standard way to achieve interoperability of heterogeneous systems in the Semantic Web. Because of the possibility of different modeling, OWL restrictions from one ontology may not necessarily be compatible with those from other ontologies. Thus, the merged ontology can suffer from restriction conflicts. This problem so far has got little attention. We propose a workflow to detect and resolve the OWL restriction conflicts within the merged ontology. We reconcile “one type” conflicts by building a subsumption hierarchy. We tackle cardinality restriction conflicts with least upper and greatest lower bound methods. By utilizing the semantic relatedness between two classes, we overcome value restriction conflicts.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The one type conflict can happen only on datatype properties.

  2. 2.

    We assumed the OWL/RDF data types could be mapped to Java data types and considered the general data types conversions from: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-5.html#jls-5.5.

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/fusion-jena/CoMerger/blob/master/Restriction/solution.md.

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    http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2019/conference/index.html.

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/fusion-jena/CoMerger/blob/master/Restriction/caseStudy.md.

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Acknowledgement

S. Babalou is supported by a scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

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  1. Heinz-Nixdorf Chair for Distributed Information Systems, Institute for Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Elena Grygorova, Samira Babalou & Birgitta König-Ries

  2. Michael-Stifel-Center for Data-Driven and Simulation Science, Jena, Germany

    Birgitta König-Ries

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  1. Elena Grygorova
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  1. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

    Andreas Harth

  2. National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Valentina Presutti

  3. Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Raphaël Troncy

  4. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Maribel Acosta

  5. Institute for Information Business at WU Wien, Vienna, Austria

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  6. Institute for Information Business at WU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Javier D. Fernández

  7. Siemens AG Österreich, Vienna, Austria

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  8. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  9. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Katja Hose

  10. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Michael Cochez

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Grygorova, E., Babalou, S., König-Ries, B. (2020). Toward OWL Restriction Reconciliation in Merging Knowledge. In: Harth, A., et al. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events. ESWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_17

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