Ontology Matching, 2nd Edition

Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services, or social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt different ontologies. Thus, merely using ontologies, like using XML, does not reduce heterogeneity: it just raises heterogeneity problems to a higher level.

Euzenat and Shvaiko’s book is devoted to ontology matching as a solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem faced by computer systems. Ontology matching aims at finding correspondences between semantically related entities of different ontologies. These correspondences may stand for equivalence as well as other relations, such as consequence, subsumption, or disjointness, between ontology entities. Many different matching solutions have been proposed so far from various viewpoints, e.g., databases, information systems, and artificial intelligence.

The second edition of Ontology Matching has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the most recent advances in this quickly developing area, which resulted in more than 150 pages of new content. In particular, the book includes a new chapter dedicated to the methodology for performing ontology matching. It also covers emerging topics, such as data interlinking, ontology partitioning and pruning, context-based matching, matcher tuning, alignment debugging, and user involvement in matching, to mention a few. More than 100 state-of-the-art matching systems and frameworks were reviewed.

With Ontology Matching, researchers and practitioners will find a reference book that presents currently available work in a uniform framework. In particular, the work and the techniques presented in this book can be equally applied to database schema matching, catalog integration, XML schema matching and other related problems. The objectives of the book include presenting (i) the state of the art and (ii) the latest research results in ontology matching by providing a systematic and detailed account of matching techniques and matching systems from theoretical, practical and application perspectives.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Matching Problem
Chapter 1: Applications
Chapter 2: The Matching Problem
Chapter 3: Methodology

Part II: Ontology Matching Techniques
Chapter 4: Classifications of Ontology Matching Techniques
Chapter 5: Basic Similarity Measures
Chapter 6: Global Matching Methods
Chapter 7: Matching Strategies

Part III: Systems and Evaluation
Chapter 8: Overview of Matching Systems
Chapter 9: Evaluation of Matching Systems

Part IV: Representing, Explaining, and Processing Alignments
Chapter 10: Frameworks and Formats: Representing Alignments
Chapter 11: User Involvement
Chapter 12: Processing Alignments

Part V: Conclusions
Chapter 13: Conclusions

Appendix A: Legends of Figures
Appendix B: Running Example
Appendix C: Exercises
Appendix D: Solutions