Authors:
Soumaya Slimani
1
;
Karim Baïna
1
;
Salah Baïna
1
;
Martin Henkel
2
and
Erik Perjons
2
Affiliations:
1
Mohammed V-Souissi University, Morocco
;
2
Stockholm University, Sweden
Keyword(s):
Ontology Evolution, Semantic Service, Multi-agent System, Eye Specialist Ontology, Primary Health Care Ontology.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Data Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Process Knowledge and Semantic Services
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Numerous ontologies have been developed for life science domains. These ontologies are continuously changing. Thus, it is becoming profitable to study and to manage these ontologies change in order to keep all dependent ontologies and their related mappings consistent. The aim of this paper is to propose an agent based approach enabling not only ontology and ontology mapping evolution analysis but also to manage their changes. An experiment in health care illustrates the benefits of our approach. We apply our algorithm, and implementation prototype p2OEManager to eye specialist ontology (ESO) and primary health care ontology (PCO), and particularly, we use our ontology agent model, and prototype to manage some significant changes in the ESO ontology.