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Towards Domain Ontology Interoperability Measurement

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Ontologies are reliable interoperability support components between information systems. However the need to make ontologies themselves interoperable to a measurable degree remains a challenge due to the semantic heteroginity problem. This paper specifically looks at domain ontologies and how to measure the interoperability degree between them to establish the extent to which they can replace each other. Different interoperability operations,semantic distance measures and lexical similarity between ontologies are dicussed. A method based on model management theory with algebraic operations such as match on the ontology models is proposed to measure lexical and structural dimensions of domain ontologies and give a value for their degree of interoperability. An example of how to compute the degree of interoperability between two domain ontologies using the proposed approach is given with an explanation of how the identified gaps can be addressed.

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The Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia under Research University grant Vots 02G31 and 00M19 are hereby acknowledged for some of the facilities utilized during the course of this research work and for supporting the related research.

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    Hussein Sseggujja & Ali Selamat

  2. Software Engineering Research Group (SERG), Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

    Ali Selamat

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Sseggujja, H., Selamat, A. (2015). Towards Domain Ontology Interoperability Measurement. In: Fujita, H., Selamat, A. (eds) Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques. SoMeT 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 513. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17530-0_20

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