Large scale ontology tailoring and simulation in the Semantic Grid Environment. (2nd April 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Flahive, A.; Apduhan, B.O.; Rahayu, J.W.; Taniar, D.
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 1:Number 4(2006)
• Page Start: 265
• Page End: 281
• Publication Date: 2007-04-02
• Subjects: ontologies -- ontology tailoring -- semantic grid -- simulation -- metadata; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

Ontologies contain semantic information often annotated with metadata. They can get quite complex and very large, causing difficulties in using these ontologies on a daily basis. A large cluster computer is required to tailor these base ontologies into smaller and/or extracted sub-ontologies, but this is expensive and not a viable solution for most users. The Semantic Grid has the ability to process large semantic data repositories as fast as or faster than some of the largest cluster computers at a fraction of the cost. This paper explores the viability of using the Semantic Grid to tailor large ontologies, efficiently and cheaply.