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Devolved Ontology for Smart Applications

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Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications (ICCS 2007)

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Many smart applications allow enterprises to communicate effectively with and through interconnected computing resources, however, successful communication presupposes a shared understanding; a so-called semantic alignment. Devolved ontology was developed to promote semantic alignment in agile partnerships. We consider the approach to be promising for any environment where multiple contexts interface and co-locate, including, for example, the Pragmatic Web, virtual organisations and indeed smart applications. We motivate and introduce devolved ontology and show how to use this to foster semantic alignment.

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  1. School of Informatics, University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    Iain Duncan Stalker, Nikolay Mehandjiev & Martin Carpenter

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Stalker, I.D., Mehandjiev, N., Carpenter, M. (2007). Devolved Ontology for Smart Applications. In: Priss, U., Polovina, S., Hill, R. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications. ICCS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4604. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73681-3_27

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