On the Use of Ontology Reconciliation Techniques in SOA

We live in a multiple vision world. This is also a reality on Semantic Web, considering that different ontologies can be used to express meaning on the same knowledge domain. The Semantic Service Oriented Architecture can also be viewed through the kaleidoscope of standards which can be used for services descriptions in a particular domain. Hence, the need of a reconciliation-centered approach becomes clear in order to bring service clients and providers closer towards better negotiations, despite the use of different vocabularies to express their interests. This is a not trivial task considering the amount of precondition analysis involved. In this paper, a formal approach is proposed for ontology reconciliation, aiming to provide unambiguous description on merging, integration and alignment techniques. The purpose is to reason about how these techniques can be combined and applied in the context of service-related tasks.