Ontology alignment is recognized as a fundamental process to achieve an adequate
interoperability between people or systems that use different, overlapping ontologies to
represent common knowledge. This process consists of finding the semantic relations
between different ontologies. There are different techniques conceived to measure the
semantic similarity of elements from separate ontologies, which must be adequately
combined in order to obtain precise and complete results. Nevertheless, combining multiple …

Born primarily as means to model knowledge, ontologies have successfully been exploited
to enable knowledge exchange among people, organizations and software agents.
However, because of strong subjectivity of ontology modeling, a matching process is
necessary in order to lead ontologies into mutual agreement and obtain the relative
alignment, ie, the set of correspondences among them. The aim of this paper is to propose a
memetic algorithm to perform an automatic matching process capable of computing a …