GMRs: Reconciliation of Generic Merge Requirements in Ontology Integration

With growing popularity of ontologies as semantics-aware integration solutions, various ontology merging methods have been proposed. Each of them uses their own set of criteria to determine a desirable merge result. In this work, we first categorize these criteria into generic merge requirements (GMRs). Not all of these requirements can be met simultaneously. We argue that users should be able to select those requirements that are most important to them, but that system support is required to determine a compatible set of requirements based on user inputs. We propose a graph-theory based approach to determining such sets.