Authors:
Sana Châabane
1
and
Faïez Gargouri
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Sfax- Tunisia, Tunisia
;
2
University of Sfax - Tunisia, Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Ontology Matching, Spatial Ontology, Merging, Mapping, Semantic Matching, Topologic Matching, Geometric Matching.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Ontology Matching and Alignment
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Ontology matching can be defined as the process of defining a set of functions for specifying correspondences between candidate concepts in order to discover similarities between two ontologies; it can be processed by exploiting a number of different techniques. In this paper, we present an approach of merging spatial ontologies which consists of three processes: “matching process”, “mapping process” and “merging process” and we focus on the matching process. Indeed we consider three kind of matching: semantic matching, topologic matching and geometric matching. For each type of matching, we formally define functions for specifying correspondences between candidate concepts.