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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

"Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"

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Ontology Exchange and Integrat on v a Product-Broker ng Agents
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Figure 4. Ontology exchange process
Figure 5. Ontology integration
KQML
Interface
RuleBuffer
Ontology Database
Rule
Construction Rule Parser
Infusion
Embedding
Selection
Reasoning/
Control
Extracting Request/Enquiry
Initiator
Representation
Other Agents/
Owner
Rule
DB Ontology Tree
Attributes
Relationship Entities
Update
A11
A21 A22
A31 A32 A33
B11
B21
B31 B32
DB of
Synonyms
d A11
A21 A22
A31 A32 A33 B21
B31 B32
(B11)
Integration Reference
Os O i
0 Guan and Zhu
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indicated in Figure 5, the agent finds that A22 and B11 are synonyms, so B11 is
merged with A22 in the resultant ontology, and Oi is inserted as the child nodes
under A11. The database of synonyms and hyponyms may be updated after each
integration process.


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