Emergent Semantics – Prof. Karl Aberer
From the webpage:
In this research we view the problem of establishing semantic interoperability as a self-organizing process in which agreements on the interpretation of data are established in a localized, and incremental manner [5, 7, 11]. Starting from a P2P architecture setting we developed an approach of how local mappings among schemas can be used to infer new mappings and check the consistency of mappings among schemas [1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 15]. In this way semantic interoperability and increased semantic consistency at a global level is achieved. We also developed an architecture and implemented the GridVine system for demonstrating hte practicality of this approach [8]. Current work is directed towards evaluation of these principles in practical settings and towards further development of the underlying theory, in particular analyzing graph-theoretic properties of semantic mapping graphs [6, 9, 12]. More information can be found on the GridVine web site http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/GridVine/. [I corrected the link to the GridVine website.]
A bibliography of articles by Prof. Karl Aberer and collaborators on emergent semantics.
Last updated in 2007.