Assessing Conflicts in Ontologies
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چکیده
We present a method to assess the possible conflict of beliefs in ontologies. Those beliefs represent for example the assessment of an ontology in regard to some goal, i.e. hydrologists may assess a flooding ontology only with maximum flood protection in mind where a politician considers more monetary issues. These different beliefs lead to different interpretations or semantics of the ontology which in turn results in a conflict between them. The method we present for measuring this conflict is based upon the concept of entropy and relative entropy. Key-Words: Ontology, Distance, Entropy, Relative Entropy, Conflict, Belief, Knowledge Assessment
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