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An Analysis of Ontological Mismatches: Heterogeneity versus Interoperability

, , , and . AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium on Ontological Engineering, Stanford, USA, (1997)

Abstract

The growth of the Internet has revitalised research on the integration of heterogeneous information sources. Integration efforts face a trade off between interoperability and heterogeneity. Important integration obstacles arise from the differences in the underlying ontologies of the various sources. In this paper we investigate the impediments to integration, focussing on ontologies. In particular, we present a classification of ontology mismatches (distinguishing conceptualisation mismatches...

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