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MAFRA — A MApping FRAmework for Distributed Ontologies

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Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web (EKAW 2002)

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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 Semantic Web 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.

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  1. Forschungszentrum Informatik at the Univ. Karlsruhe, D-76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Alexander Maedche, Boris Motik, Nuno Silva & Raphael Volz

  2. ISEP Instituto Superior de Engenharia Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Portugal

    Nuno Silva

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Intelligent Software Components, S.A. (iSOCO), Francisca Delgado, 11 - 2∘, 28108, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain

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Maedche, A., Motik, B., Silva, N., Volz, R. (2002). MAFRA — A MApping FRAmework for Distributed Ontologies. In: Gómez-Pérez, A., Benjamins, V.R. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web. EKAW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2473. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45810-7_23

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