A Service Oriented Architecture for Extracting and Extending Sub-Ontologies in the Semantic Grid

This paper presents a service oriented architecture (SOA) approach to a distributed framework for reusing, extracting and extending (tailoring) large domain ontologies in the semantic grid environment. The conceptual level of the framework describes how sub-ontologies are tailored while the architectural level of the framework describes the components of the framework that allows the tailoring process happen in the semantic grid environment. A prototype of the framework and a complexity evaluation measure are also provided.