Social Networked Multi-agent Negotiation in Ontology Alignment

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of the Semantic Web, more and more data models are being published daily in the form of ontologies, micro-formats or micro-data. This increase in the amount of models and their heterogeneity is becoming a global scale integration problem. We propose a decentralized and scalable multi-agent negotiation process for ontology alignment that exploits an underlying social network communication structure and SNA measures and algorithms.Social network analisys; multi-agent systems; ontology alignment; expert finding