Paving a Research Roadmap on Network of Ontologies1

Abstract

Network of ontologies is the pairwise match of a set of ontologies, which be came recently relevant due to its applicability in different domains, such as cultural evo lution. However, the challenges faced in this area are not completely known and understood, neither are their relations to ontology matching counterpart problems. The goal of this paper is to identify challenges and applications of a network of ontologies and compare them to the 8 existing challenges of ontology matching. We identified four new challenges and related them with the eight challenges presented in [3].

Keywords

• Ontology
• Ontology Alignment
• Network of Ontologies
• Systematic Mapping Study

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were mentioned in the articles selected and the last two were inferred by the N.O. def initions presented in some articles.

Figueroa et al. [ 4 ] presented a methodology to build ontologies and a tool to man age lifecycles. However, the approach does not address the definition of activities re lated to N.O. administration including user access and rights, node management, net work troubleshooting and other typical activities in network environments. These problems were also not covered in [ 3 ]. If we relate the known research areas in [ 3 ] to the four “new” challenges we found after this systematic mapping, as illustrated in Figure 1, we may reveal some characteristics of the challenges.

Final Considerations This work provides a first roadmap for research on Network of Ontologies, by point ing a set of challenges found through the use of a systematic mapping in the literature. Interestingly, the identified challenges interrelate to previous Ontology Matching challenges posed in [ 3 ] by addressing overlapping research areas. Moreover, the new challenges found also transcend previous one with regard to specific issues such as consistency detection and alignment repair.

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