MAFRA - A Mapping Framework for Distributed Ontologies

Authors: 
Silva, N.; Motik, B.; Volz, R.
Author: 
Silva, N
Motik, B
Volz, R
Year: 
2002
Venue: 
EKAW, 2002, LNCS 2473
URL: 
http://dit.unitn.it/~p2p/RelatedWork/Matching/mafra.pdf
Citations: 
384
Citations range: 
100 - 499
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Ontologies as means for conceptualizing and structuring domain knowledge
within a community of interest are seen as a key to realize the SemanticWeb
vision. However, the decentralized nature of the Web makes achieving this consensus
across communities difficult, thus, hampering efficient knowledge sharing
between them. In order to balance the autonomy of each community with the
need for interoperability, mapping mechanisms between distributed ontologies in
the Semantic Web are required. In this paper we present MAFRA, an interactive,
incremental and dynamic framework for mapping distributed ontologies.