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A formal model for situated semantic alignment

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Manuel Atencia,

Marco SchorlemmerAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Article No.: 226, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/1329125.1329398

Published: 14 May 2007 Publication History

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Ontology matching is currently a key technology to achieve the semantic alignment of ontological entities used by knowledge-based applications, and therefore to enable their interoperability in distributed environments such as multi-agent systems. Most ontology matching mechanisms, however, assume matching prior integration and rely on semantics that has been coded a priori in concept hierarchies or external sources. In this paper, we present a formal model for a semantic alignment procedure that incrementally aligns differing conceptualisations of two or more agents relative to their respective perception of the environment or domain they are acting in. It hence makes the situation in which the alignment occurs explicit in the model. We resort to Channel Theory to carry out the formalisation.

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A formal model for situated semantic alignment
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
    2. Knowledge representation and reasoning
      1. Semantic networks
2. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Information integration
    2. Middleware for databases
      1. Object-relational mapping facilities

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AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

May 2007

1585 pages

ISBN:9788190426275

DOI:10.1145/1329125

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University of Michigan
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Kyushu University
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University of South Carolina
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Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

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