Ontology-based approach for information fusion
Anne-Claire Boury-Brisset · 2003
Ontologies have received increasing interest in the computer science community and their benefits have been recognized in many areas. In this paper, we discuss the role of ontologies to facilitate information fusion fiom heterogeneous data and knowledge sources in support of high-level information fusion processes. We review several approaches where ontologies help provide semantic integration of information. We present preliminary work about ontological engineering for level 2 and 3 information fusion that should help semantic integration. Ontology development methods and tools should support the ontological engineering process. To this end, we propose a methodological approach and a flexible environment for ontology management that enables the building of extensible ontologies, and the mappingfiom ontologies to information sources.