A bigraphical approach to model and verify ontology alignment
by Manel Kolli
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 43, No. 3, 2023

Abstract: Dealing with diverse ontologies by means of semantic alignment stills always an attractive research axe. This allows performing the semantic interoperability among ontologies. A semantic network of ontologies is made of a set of different ontologies related by semantic alignments. Indeed, the design and the realisation of alignment-based ontological network systems are very challenging and delicate tasks. In this paper, a new approach is proposed, based on bigraphic reactive systems and their sorting logic, to provide a formal modelling of ontological network systems architecture and their behaviours. Another contribution of this paper consists of providing a new way for the ontology networking verification using the computation tree logic, or CTL for short, model checking for expressing the incoherencies of mappings in order to minimise the amount of errors and make the mappings of concepts more pertinent while ensuring the consistency of the ontology networking system. The obtained results show a good performance of the networking system after detecting and repairing incoherencies of mappings. The comparison of these results demonstrates that the proposed approach is useful, and the quality of mappings results is improved significantly in most cases.

Online publication date: Fri, 30-Jun-2023

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