Adaptive Semantic Interoperability Strategies for Knowledge Based Networking

Knowledge-based networking involves the forwarding of messages across a network based on semantics of the data and associated metadata of the message content. However such systems typically assume a common semantic model underpinning the routing which limits their ability to cope with heterogeneity. In contrast, the authors have developed a semantic-based publish/subscribe system that is unique in allowing several semantic models to support routing. This paper examines the content heterogeneity problem in a Knowledge-Based Network (KBN) implementation and evaluates a mechanism for efficiently and dynamically loading ontological mappings for use with distributed and heterogeneous knowledge-based applications.