Agent-based Architecture for Service Ontology evolution management

Communication between services requires a common vocabulary to allow reliable exchange of information. However services are evolving independently and their ontologies evolve too. The existing distributed ontology evolution approaches are not scaled to dynamic environments like Semantic Web service architecture. As the distributed system grows in size, the complexity of ontology change management increases, especially if the ontologies are heterogeneous. In this paper, a new approach is proposed to manage ontology evolution in distributed architecture. Our proposal consists of a set of collaborative agents which dynamically manage different ontologies and their mapping.