Progressive ontology alignment for meaning coordination: an information-theoretic foundation

Authors:
Marco Schorlemmer;Yannis Kalfoglou
Affiliations:
Institut d'Investigació en Intelligència Artificial, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain;University of Southampton, Southampton, England, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We elaborate on the mathematical foundations of the meaning coordination problem that agents face in open environments. We investigate to which extend the Barwise-Seligman theory of information flow provides a faithful theoretical description of the partial semantic integration that two agents achieve as they progressively align their underlying ontologies through the sharing of tokens, such as instances. We also discuss the insights and practical implications of the Barwise-Seligman theory with respect to the general meaning coordination problem.