Title: Large scale ontology tailoring and simulation in the Semantic Grid Environment

Authors: A. Flahive, B.O. Apduhan, J.W. Rahayu, D. Taniar

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. ' Department of Information Science, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan. ' Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. ' Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University Clayton, Victoria 3800 Australia

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.

Keywords: ontologies; ontology tailoring; semantic grid; simulation; metadata.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.012951

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2006 Vol.1 No.4, pp.265 - 281

Published online: 31 Mar 2007 *

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