Abstract: The basic idea
behind the ontology is to conceptualize information that is published in
electronic format. The problem of ontology alignment is defined as identifying
the relationship shared by the set of different entities where each entity
belongs to separate ontology. The amount of similarity between two entities
from two different ontologies takes part into the ontology alignment process.
There are several similarity measuring methods available in the existing
literature for measuring the similarity between two discrete entities from
different ontologies. To obtain a comprehensive and precise result, all the similarity
measures are integrated. One of the ways to combine the various similarity
measures is weight-based similarity aggregation. Usually the weights with
respect to various similarity measures are assigned manually or through some
method. But most of the existing techniques suffer from lack of optimality.
Also many evolutionary based approaches are available to find the optimal
solution for weight-based similarity aggregation but they are designed as
single objective optimization problem. This fact has inspired us to develop a
multiobjective particle swarm based optimization algorithm for generating
optimal weight based similarity aggregation to get a optimal alignment. In this
article, two objectives precision and recall are simultaneously optimized.
Moreover a local search is conducted for replacing the worst population in the
new generation by best population acquired from the history. The proposed study
is evaluated using an artificial data set and performance of the proposed
method is compared with that of its single objective versions.
Keywords: ontology alignment, particle swarm optimization, multiobjective optimization, f-score.