An infrastructure for formally ensuring interoperability in a heterogeneous semantic web

Jérôme Euzenat (1)

1 EXMO - Computer mediated exchange of structured knowledge

Because different applications and different communities require different features, the semantic web might have to face the heterogeneity of the languages for expressing knowledge. Yet, it will be necessary for many applications to use knowledge coming from different sources. In such a context, ensuring the correct understanding of imported knowledge on a semantic ground is very important. We present here an infrastructure based on the notions of transformations from one language to another and of properties satisfied by transformations. We show, in the particular context of semantic properties and description logics markup language, how it is possible (1) to define properties of transformations, (2) to express, in a form easily processed by machine, the proof of a property and (3) to construct by composition a proof of properties satisfied by compound transformations. All these functions are based on extensions of current web standard languages.

Mots clés: XML; XSLT; OMDoc; MathML; DLML; Transmorpher; Transformations; proof

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Logique en informatique [cs.LO]; Web

Jérôme Euzenat. An infrastructure for formally ensuring interoperability in a heterogeneous semantic web. Proc. 1st semantic web working symposium (SWWS), Jul 2001, Stanford, United States. pp.345-360. ⟨hal-00822913⟩