D2.2.7: Analysis of knowledge transformation and merging techniques and implementations

Dealing with heterogeneity requires finding correspondences between entities of ontologies and using these correspondences for performing some action such as merging ontologies, transforming ontologies, translating data, mediating queries and reasoning with the aligned ontologies. This deliverable considers this problem through the introduction of an alignment life cycle which also identifies the need for manipulating, storing and sharing the alignments before processing them. In particular, we also consider support for run time and design time alignment processing. Keyword list: ontology alignment, alignment life cycle, alignment edition, ontology merging, ontoloy transformation, data translation, query mediation, reasoning, alignment support.

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