Conflict resolution and missing completion in the fusion of domain ontology in cyber-physical systems

CPS integrates information services, human resource services, and physical equipment services, and always be supported by the ontologies in multiple domains. Due to the inconsistency of ontologies from different domains, the fusion of domain ontologies may have conflicts and deficiencies. Therefore, this paper provides a method for the conflict resolution and missing completion in the fusion of domain.

Ontology-Based Probabilistic Estimation for Assessing Semantic Similarity of Land Use/Land Cover Classification Systems

To accurately and formally represent the historical trajectory and present the current situation of land use/land cover (LULC), numerous types of classification standards for LULC have been developed by different nations, institutes, organizations, etc.; however, these land cover classification systems and legends generate polysemy and ambiguity in integration and sharing. The approaches for dealing with semantic heterogeneity have been developed in terms of semantic similarity. Generally speaking, these approaches lack domain ontologies, which might be a significant barrier to implementing these approaches in terms of semantic similarity assessment. In this paper, we propose an ontological approach to assess the similarity of the domain of LULC classification systems and standards. We develop domain ontologies to explicitly define the descriptions and codes of different LULC classification systems and standards as semantic information, and formally organize this semantic information as rules for logical reasoning. Then, we utilize a Bayes algorithm to create a conditional probabilistic model for computing the semantic similarity of terms in two separate LULC land cover classification systems. The experiment shows that semantic similarity can be effectively measured by integrating a probabilistic model based on the content of ontology.

An Automatic Generation of Domain Ontologies Based on an MDA Approach to Support Big Data Analytics

This chapter proposes a new methodology for the automatic generation of domain ontologies to support big data analytics. This method ensures the recommendations of the MDA approach by transforming UML class diagrams to domain ontologies in PSM level through ODM, which is an OMG standard for ontology modeling. In this work, the authors have focused on the model-driven architecture approach as the best solution for representing and generating ontology artifacts in an intuitive way using the UML graphical syntax. The creation of domain ontologies will form the basis for application developers to target business professional context; however, the future of big data will depend on the use of technologies to model ontologies. With that said, this work supports the combination of ontologies and big data approaches as the most efficient way to store, extract, and analyze data. It is shown using the theoretical approach and concrete results obtained after applying the proposed process to an e-learning domain ontology.

Applications of the Metadata Standards

This chapter addresses issues related to the practical use of the metadata standards, including syntactic interoperability and concrete scenarios from molecular modelling and simulation. It discusses challenges that arise from semantic heterogeneity, wherever multiple interoperability standards are concurrently employed for identical or overlapping domains of knowledge, or where domain ontologies need to be matched to top-level ontologies such as the European Materials and Modelling Ontology (EMMO).