Yesterday, on September 26, our PhD candidate Zlatan Dragisic defended successfully his thesis with the title “Completion of Ontologies and Ontology Networks.” The thesis makes several contributions: First, the problem of completing the is-a structure in ontologies is formalized as an abductive reasoning problem and the thesis introduces algorithms as well as systems for dealing with the problem. Regarding the completion of alignments between ontologies, the thesis provides a performance study of systems that participated in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative, and an approach to reduce the search space when generating such alignments. Next, the thesis reports a broad study of state-of-the-art ontology alignment systems in terms of user involvement during the completion process and, in particular, the impact of user errors in this process. Finally, the thesis introduces an approach to integrate ontology completion and ontology alignment into an existing ontology development methodology.
Zlatan’s work on the thesis was supervised by Patrick Lambrix, and co-supervised by Nahid Shahmehri, Marco Kuhlmann, and Fang Wei-Kleiner. The opponent was Erhard Rahm from the University of Leipzig, Germany. The examination committee consisted of Asuncion Gomez-Perez from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Jerome Euzenat from INRIA and Graham Kemp from Chalmers University of Technology. Magnus Bång from Linköping University was backup examination committee member.
Find the thesis in the Diva portal.
Well done Zlatan! Congratulations!
