A Proposal and Evaluation of a Mechanism for Grid Ontology Merge

  • Authors:
  • J. G. R. C. Lopes;Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves Melo;M. A. R. Dantas;Celia Ghedini Ralha

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil;University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil;Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil;University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil

  • Venue:
  • HPCS '06 Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on High-Performance Computing in an Advanced Collaborative Environment
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The use of ontologies to express the attributes of grid resources can provide a means to explore knowledge in this environment. Unfortunately, many grid initiatives have built their own ontologies, which are incompatible with the others. To achieve interoperability, ontology merge is a very interesting alternative. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a mechanism that performs ontology merging and semantic resource matching on the resulting global ontology. Also, we designed a graphical interface where the user can interact with our mechanism. As a preliminary result, we show that our tool is able to merge four different and complex ontologies that describe grid resources.