COMP - Comparing Ontology Matching Plug-in

Improving the ontology integration seems to be an important thing for maintenance of cooperation among various directions of ontology engineering (semantic web services, social networks, etc.). While particular ontologies cover a view at one specific domain of interest, many applications require much more general approach to describe their data. On this account it approaches to a promising solution to the semantic heterogeneity, ontology matching. Matching can be improved in various ways, such as improving matching strategies, tools and systems, basic techniques and methods or by explaining, representing and further processing and evaluating matching results. This paper describe a matching plug-in into the open-source ontology editor, Protégé. The plug-in is called COMP and it is a tool for comparing and evaluating various matching techniques and strategies.