SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Managing semantic heterogeneity in databases: a theoretical prospective
PODS '97 Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
An active functionality service for e-business applications
ACM SIGMOD Record
Probabilistic query expansion using query logs
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships
Data & Knowledge Engineering - ER2000
Query expansion and query translation as logical inference
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Mathematical, logical, and formal methods in information retrieval
Similarity Flooding: A Versatile Graph Matching Algorithm and Its Application to Schema Matching
ICDE '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering
Lexical and semantic clustering by web links
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Webometrics
Knowledge-based query expansion to support scenario-specific retrieval of medical free text
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Reformulation of queries using similarity thesauri
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Intelligent Taxonomy Management Tools for Enterprise Content
WI '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Models for semantic interoperability in service-oriented architectures
IBM Systems Journal
Exploiting semantic annotation to supporting user browsing on the web
Knowledge-Based Systems
A large scale taxonomy mapping evaluation
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
A survey of schema-based matching approaches
Journal on Data Semantics IV
Virtual enterprise normative framework within electronic institutions
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Taxonomy alignment for interoperability between heterogeneous digital libraries
ICADL'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Towards open decision support systems based on semantic focused crawling
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Semantic business process integration based on ontology alignment
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Indirect Alignment between Multilingual Ontologies: A Case Study of Korean and Swedish Ontologies
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Editorial: Virtual agent and organization modeling: Theory and applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Modeling a resource contention in the management of virtual organizations
Information Sciences: an International Journal
An XML based supply chain integration hub for green product lifecycle management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Service chain-based business alliance formation in service-oriented architecture
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
OCEAN: an ontology for supporting interoperability service utilities in virtual organisations
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Semantic annotation of cognitive map for knowledge sharing between heterogeneous businesses
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Resources in virtual organizations are classified based on their local taxonomies. However, heterogeneity between these taxonomies is a serious problem for efficient cooperation processes (e.g., knowledge sharing and querying-based interactions). In order to overcome this problem, we propose a novel framework based on aligning the taxonomies of virtual organizations. Thereby, the best mapping between two organization taxonomies has to be discovered to maximize the summation of a set of partial similarities between concepts in the taxonomies. We can consider two levels of alignment processes; (i) intra-alignment in a virtual organization for building an organizational taxonomy and (ii) inter-alignment between organizational taxonomies. Particularly, for intra-alignment, features extracted from resources are exploited to enhance the precision of similarity measurement between concepts. For experimentation, twelve virtual organizations have been built with different local taxonomies. The proposed inter-alignment method has shown about 76% of precision and 68% of recall. Also, feature-based intra-alignment improved those performance, during resource retrieval by query transformation. In addition, we found out that alignment results are dependent on some characteristics of taxonomies (e.g., depth and number of classes).