Octavian Udrea, Yu Deng, Edna Ruckhaus, V.S. Subrahmanian
RDF ontologies are rapidly increasing in number. We study the problem of integrating two RDF ontologies under a given set H of Horn clauses that specify semantic relationships between terms in the ontology, as well as under a given set of negative constraints. We formally define the notion of a witness to the integrability of two RDF ontologies under such constraints. A witness represents a way of integrating the ontologies together. We define a "minimal" witnesses and provide the polynomial CROW (Computing RDF Ontology Witness) algorithm to find a witness. We report on the performance of CROW both on DAML, SchemaWeb and OntoBroker ontologies as well as on synthetically generated data. The experiments show that CROW works very well on real-life ontologies and scales to massive ontologies.
Content Area: 19. Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, and Extraction
Subjects: 11.2 Ontologies
Submitted: May 10, 2005
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