Citation
Azpírez, JC. and Gómez-Pérez, A. and Lozano-Tello, A. and Pinto, S.
(1998).
(ONTO)2 Agent: an Ontology-based WWW broker to select ontologies.
In: "13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI’98) Workshop Applications of Ontologies and Problems Solving Methods", 23-28 August 1998, Brighton, UK.
Abstract
Knowledge reuse by means of ontologies now faces three
important problems: (1) there are no standardized identifying features that characterize ontologies from the user point of view; (2) there are no web sites using the same logical organization, presenting relevant information about ontologies; and (3) the search for appropriate ontologies is hard, timeconsuming and usually fruitless. To solve the above problems, we present: (1) a living set of features that allow us to characterize ontologies from the user point of view and have the same logical organization; (2) a living domain ontology about ontologies (called Reference Ontology) that gathers, describes and has links to existing ontologies; and (3) (ONTO)2Agent, the ontology-based www broker about ontologies that uses the Reference Ontology as a source of its knowledge and retrieves descriptions of ontologies that satisfy a given set of constraints. (ONTO)2Agent is available at http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/REFERENCE_ONTOLOGY/
