An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

This chapter studies ontology matching: the problem of finding the semantic mappings
between two given ontologies. This problem lies at the heart of numerous information …

This paper aims at analyzing the key trends and challenges of the ontology matching field.
The main motivation behind this work is the fact that despite many component matching …

Ontologies are nowadays used in many domains such as Semantic Web, information
systems… to represent meaning of data and data sources. In the framework of knowledge …

In the area of semantic technologies, benchmarking and systematic evaluation is not yet as
established as in other areas of computer science, eg, information retrieval. In spite of …

The amount of research papers published nowadays related to ontology matching is
remarkable and we believe that reflects the growing interest of the research community …

After years of research on ontology matching, it is reasonable to consider several questions:
is the field of ontology matching still making progress? Is this progress significant enough to …

We demonstrate the schema and ontology matching tool COMA++. It extends our previous
prototype COMA utilizing a composite approach to combine different match algorithms [3] …

On the Semantic Web, data will inevitably come from many different ontologies, and
information processing across ontologies is not possible without knowing the semantic …

Achieving automatic interoperability among systems with diverse data structures and
languages expressing different viewpoints is a goal that has been difficult to accomplish …