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Domain Ontologies Evolutions to Solve Semantic Conflicts

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Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems (ODBIS 2006, ODBIS 2005)

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The growth and variety of distributed information sources imply a need to exchange and/or to share information extracted from various and heterogeneous databases. The cooperation of heterogeneous information systems requires advanced architectures able to solve conflicts coming from data heterogeneity (structural and semantic heterogeneity). To resolve semantic conflicts relatively to evolutive domain ontologies following databases evolution according to the dialogue between agents, taking care of scalability issues, we propose a multi-agent system. These interaction protocols allowing ontologies evolution are currently implemented by using Java and the JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment framework) platform.

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  1. MODEME, Université Jean Moulin, 6 cours Albert Thomas – BP 8242, 69355 Lyon cedex 08, France

    Guilaine Talens & Danielle Boulanger

  2. SAP Labs France, SAP Research, 805, avenue du Dr. Maurice Donat, 06254 Mougins Cedex,  

    Magali Séguran

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Talens, G., Boulanger, D., Séguran, M. (2007). Domain Ontologies Evolutions to Solve Semantic Conflicts. In: Collard, M. (eds) Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems. ODBIS ODBIS 2006 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4623. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75474-9_4

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