| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
| Introduction and Overview | p. 1 |
| Motivation | p. 1 |
| Contribution | p. 3 |
| Problem Outline | p. 3 |
| Solution Pathway | p. 4 |
| Overview | p. 5 |
| Structure | p. 5 |
| Reader's Guide | p. 6 |
| Foundations | |
| Definitions | p. 11 |
| Ontology | p. 11 |
| Ontology Definition | p. 11 |
| Semantic Web and Web Ontology Language (OWL) | p. 14 |
| Ontology Example | p. 16 |
| Ontology Alignment | p. 19 |
| Ontology Alignment Definition | p. 19 |
| Ontology Alignment Representation | p. 20 |
| Ontology Alignment Example | p. 21 |
| Related Terms | p. 23 |
| Ontology Similarity | p. 25 |
| Ontology Similarity Definition | p. 25 |
| Similarity Layers | p. 26 |
| Specific Similarity Measures | p. 28 |
| Similarity in Related Work | p. 34 |
| Heuristic Definition | p. 34 |
| Scenarios | p. 37 |
| Use Cases | p. 37 |
| Alignment Discovery | p. 38 |
| Agent Negotiation / Web Service Composition | p. 38 |
| Data Integration | p. 39 |
| Ontology Evolution / Versioning | p. 40 |
| Ontology Merging | p. 40 |
| Query and Answer Rewriting / Mapping | p. 41 |
| Reasoning | p. 42 |
| Requirements | p. 42 |
| Related Work | p. 45 |
| Theory of Alignment | p. 45 |
| Algebraic Approach | p. 45 |
| Information-Flow-based Approach | p. 46 |
| Translation Framework | p. 47 |
| Existing Alignment Approaches | p. 47 |
| Classification Guidelines for Alignment Approaches | p. 47 |
| Ontology Alignment Approaches | p. 49 |
| Schema Alignment Approaches | p. 53 |
| Global as View / Local as View | p. 56 |
| Ontology Alignment Approach | |
| Process | p. 61 |
| General Process | p. 61 |
| Alignment Approach | p. 64 |
| Input | p. 64 |
| Feature Engineering | p. 65 |
| Search Step Selection | p. 67 |
| Similarity Computation | p. 68 |
| Similarity Aggregation | p. 69 |
| Interpretation | p. 72 |
| Iteration | p. 74 |
| Output | p. 75 |
| Process Description of Related Approaches | p. 76 |
| Prompt, Anchor-Prompt | p. 76 |
| Glue | p. 78 |
| Ola | p. 79 |
| Evaluation of Alignment Approach | p. 81 |
| Evaluation Scenario | p. 81 |
| Evaluation Measures | p. 82 |
| Absolute Quality | p. 88 |
| Data Sets | p. 88 |
| Strategies | p. 91 |
| Results | p. 92 |
| Discussion and Lessons Learned | p. 95 |
| Advanced Methods | p. 97 |
| Efficiency | p. 97 |
| Challenge | p. 97 |
| Complexity | p. 98 |
| An Efficient Approach | p. 100 |
| Evaluation | p. 104 |
| Discussion and Lessons Learned | p. 106 |
| Machine Learning | p. 107 |
| Challenge | p. 107 |
| Machine Learning for Ontology Alignment | p. 108 |
| Runtime Alignment | p. 113 |
| Explanatory Component of Decision Trees | p. 114 |
| Evaluation | p. 115 |
| Discussion and Lessons Learned | p. 117 |
| Active Alignment | p. 119 |
| Challenge | p. 119 |
| Ontology Alignment with User Interaction | p. 120 |
| Evaluation | p. 121 |
| Discussion and Lessons Learned | p. 123 |
| Adaptive Alignment | p. 124 |
| Challenge | p. 124 |
| Overview | p. 125 |
| Create Utility Function | p. 125 |
| Derive Requirements for Result Dimensions | p. 127 |
| Derive Parameters | p. 128 |
| Example | p. 131 |
| Evaluation | p. 132 |
| Discussion and Lessons Learned | p. 133 |
| Integrated Approach | p. 135 |
| Integrating the Individual Approaches | p. 135 |
| Summary of Ontology Alignment Approaches | p. 136 |
| Evaluation | p. 136 |
| Discussion and Lessons Learned | p. 138 |
| Implementation and Application | |
| Tools | p. 145 |
| Basic Infrastructure for Ontology Alignment and Mapping-Foam | p. 145 |
| User Example | p. 145 |
| Process Implementation | p. 146 |
| Underlying Software | p. 147 |
| Availability and Open Usage | p. 148 |
| Summary | p. 149 |
| Ontology Mapping Based on Axioms | p. 149 |
| Logics and Inferencing | p. 150 |
| Formalization of Similarity Rules as Logical Axioms | p. 151 |
| Evaluation | p. 152 |
| Integration into Ontology Engineering Platform | p. 153 |
| OntoStudio | p. 153 |
| OntoMap | p. 154 |
| Foam in OntoMap | p. 155 |
| Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer - SWAP | p. 157 |
| Project Description | p. 157 |
| Core Technologies | p. 158 |
| Case Studies | p. 159 |
| Bibster | p. 159 |
| Scenario | p. 160 |
| Design | p. 160 |
| Ontology Alignment / Duplicate Detection | p. 163 |
| Application | p. 166 |
| Xarop | p. 167 |
| Scenario | p. 167 |
| Design | p. 169 |
| Ontology Alignment | p. 173 |
| Application | p. 174 |
| Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies - SEKT | p. 175 |
| Project Description | p. 175 |
| Core Technologies | p. 176 |
| Case Studies | p. 176 |
| Ontology Alignment | p. 176 |
| Intelligent Integrated Decision Support for Legal Professionals | p. 177 |
| Scenario | p. 177 |
| Use Cases | p. 177 |
| Design | p. 178 |
| Retrieving and Sharing Knowledge in a Digital Library | p. 179 |
| Scenario | p. 179 |
| Use Cases | p. 179 |
| Design | p. 180 |
| Heterogeneous Groups in Consulting | p. 180 |
| Scenario | p. 180 |
| Use Cases | p. 180 |
| Design | p. 181 |
| Towards Next Generation Semantic Alignment | |
| Next Steps | p. 185 |
| Generalization | p. 185 |
| Situation | p. 185 |
| Generalized Process | p. 186 |
| Alignment of Petri Nets | p. 187 |
| Summary | p. 191 |
| Complex Alignments | p. 192 |
| Situation | p. 192 |
| Types of Complex Alignments | p. 193 |
| Extended Process for Complex Alignments | p. 194 |
| Implementation and Discussion | p. 195 |
| Future | p. 197 |
| Outlook | p. 197 |
| Limits for Alignment | p. 199 |
| Errors | p. 199 |
| Points of Mismatch | p. 200 |
| Implications | p. 201 |
| Conclusion | p. 203 |
| Content Summary | p. 203 |
| Assessment of Contribution | p. 205 |
| Final Statements | p. 207 |
| Appendix | |
| Ontologies | p. 211 |
| Complete Evaluation Results | p. 215 |
| Foam Tool Details | p. 221 |
| Short description | p. 221 |
| Download and Installation | p. 221 |
| Usage | p. 222 |
| Web Service | p. 222 |
| Parameters | p. 222 |
| Additional features of the tool | p. 224 |
| References | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 245 |
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