Jérôme Euzenat, Petko Valtchev, An integrative proximity measure for ontology alignment, in: Proc. ISWC workshop on semantic information integration, Sanibel Island (FL US), pp33-38, 2003
Integrating heterogeneous resources of the web will require finding agreement between the underlying ontologies. A variety of methods from the literature may be used for this task, basically they perform pair-wise comparison of entities from each of the ontologies and select the most similar pairs. We introduce a similarity measure that takes advantage of most of the features of OWL-Lite ontologies and integrates many ontology comparison techniques in a common framework. Moreover, we put forth a computation technique to deal with one-to-many relations and circularities in the similarity definitions.