Semantic Conflict Resolution in Heterogeneous Databases: Interaction Protocols for Domain Ontologies Evolution

摘要

This work deals with cooperation of heterogeneous Information Systems. The growth and variety of distributed information sources imply a need to exchange and/or to share information extracted from various and heterogeneous databases. Cooperation of heterogeneous information systems requires advanced architectures able to solve conflicts coming from data heterogeneity. The project ACSIS (Agents for Cooperation of Secure Information Systems) is a proposition to resolve semantic conflicts coming from databases heterogeneity taking care of scalability issues. Therefore, this solution uses Distributed Artificial Intelligence techniques like defined Interaction Protocols and scalable domain ontology. The cooperative architecture is currently implemented by using Java and the JADE platform (Java Agent DEvelopment framework).