A Comparison of Upper Ontologies
Viviana Mascardi, Valentina Cordì, Paolo Rosso · 2006
Abstract—Upper Ontologies are quickly becoming a key technology for integrating heterogeneous knowledge coming from different sources. In fact, they may be exploited as a “lingua franca ” by intelligent software agents in all those scenarios where it is impossible (or there is no will) for an agent to disclose its own entire ontology to other agent, despite the need to communicate with it. This paper represents the very preliminary step towards the exploitation of Upper Ontologies as bridges for allowing intelligent software agents to align heterogeneous ontologies in an automatic way, where we analyse the most up-to-date state-of-theart. In this paper we analyse 7 Upper Ontologies, namely BFO,