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Ontology Evolution Detection: Method and Results

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The Semantic Web and Web Science (CSWS 2014)

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The distributed and dynamic characteristics of semantic Web make ontologies change constantly, that leads to ontology evolution and different versions of ontologies. In ontology evolution, changes would happen at domain, shared conceptual model and ontology representation, and then these changes would propagate and affect semantics of other elements. This paper focuses on ontology evolution detection, which is the foundation of ontology evolution problem. First, an evolution detection method based on similarity is proposed. Then the minimum cost of evolution strategy is also proposed to recover the reasonable evolution process. Experimental results show that this method performs well on OAEI benchmark data set.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61472077).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

    Gaofan Li & Peng Wang

  2. College of Software Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

    Gaofan Li & Peng Wang

  3. Communication Station of Unit 95028, P.L.A., Wuhan, China

    Bin Yu

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  1. Peking University, Beijing, China

    Dongyan Zhao

  2. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

    Jianfeng Du

  3. East China University, Shanghai, China

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  4. Southeast University, Nanjing, China

    Peng Wang

  5. Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Donghong Ji

  6. The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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Li, G., Wang, P., Yu, B. (2014). Ontology Evolution Detection: Method and Results. In: Zhao, D., Du, J., Wang, H., Wang, P., Ji, D., Pan, J. (eds) The Semantic Web and Web Science. CSWS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45495-4_12

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