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Arguing over ontology alignments

Arguing over ontology alignments
Arguing over ontology alignments
In open and dynamic environments, agents will usually differ in the domain ontologies they commit to and their perception of the world. The availability of Alignment Services that are able to provide correspondences between two ontologies is only a partial solution to achieving interoperability between agents, because any given candidate set of alignments is only suitable in certain contexts. For a given context, different agents might have different and inconsistent perspectives that reflect their differing interests and preferences on the acceptability of candidate mappings, each of which may be rationally acceptable. In this paper we introduce an argumentation-based negotiation framework over the terminology they use in order to communicate. This argumentation framework relies on a formal argument manipulation schema and on an encoding of the agents preferences between particular kinds of arguments. The former does not vary between agents, whereas the latter depends on the interests of each agent. Thus, this approach distinguishes clearly between the alignment rationales valid for all agents and those specific to a particular agent.
Laera, Loredana
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Tamma, Valentina
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Euzenat, Jerome
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Bench-Capon, Trevor
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Payne, Terry R.
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Laera, Loredana
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Tamma, Valentina
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Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor and Payne, Terry R. (2006) Arguing over ontology alignments. International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006), Athens, GA.

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Abstract

In open and dynamic environments, agents will usually differ in the domain ontologies they commit to and their perception of the world. The availability of Alignment Services that are able to provide correspondences between two ontologies is only a partial solution to achieving interoperability between agents, because any given candidate set of alignments is only suitable in certain contexts. For a given context, different agents might have different and inconsistent perspectives that reflect their differing interests and preferences on the acceptability of candidate mappings, each of which may be rationally acceptable. In this paper we introduce an argumentation-based negotiation framework over the terminology they use in order to communicate. This argumentation framework relies on a formal argument manipulation schema and on an encoding of the agents preferences between particular kinds of arguments. The former does not vary between agents, whereas the latter depends on the interests of each agent. Thus, this approach distinguishes clearly between the alignment rationales valid for all agents and those specific to a particular agent.

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Published date: 2006
Additional Information: Event Dates: November 5 2006
Venue - Dates: International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006), Athens, GA, 2006-11-05
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 262995
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/262995
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Date deposited: 20 Sep 2006
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 07:23

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Author: Loredana Laera
Author: Valentina Tamma
Author: Jerome Euzenat
Author: Trevor Bench-Capon
Author: Terry R. Payne

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