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Reconciling Implicit and Evolving Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability

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This paper addresses current approaches to the goal of semantic interoperability on the web and presents new research directions. We critically discuss the existing approaches, including RDF, SHOE, PROMPT and Chimaera, and identify the most effective elements of each. In our opinion, the ability of these primarily closed solutions to succeed on a global web scale is limited. In general, a unilateral solution to the problem on a global level seems unlikely in the foreseeable future. We review and contrast our own research experiments AReXS and CASA and suggest that as yet unad-dressed issues should be considered, such as reconciling implicit ontologies and evolving ntologies and task-oriented analysis. We also consider the role of semantic interoperation in multi-agent systems and describe strategies for achieving this via the ROADMAP methodology, with emphasis on building and assuring knowledge models.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

    Kendall Lister, Maia Hristozova & Leon Sterling

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  1. Agent Applications, Research and Technology Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, Great Britain

    Valentina Tamma

  2. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Stephen Cranefield

  3. 329 Information Technology and Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA

    Timothy W. Finin

  4. Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Modul C5, 211b Campus Nord, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Steven Willmott

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Lister, K., Hristozova, M., Sterling, L. (2005). Reconciling Implicit and Evolving Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability. In: Tamma, V., Cranefield, S., Finin, T.W., Willmott, S. (eds) Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7361-X_6

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