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Implementing Systemic Thinking for Automatic Schema Matching: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Authors:
Hicham Assoudi
Hakim Lounis

Keywords: Schema Matching; Systemic Approach; Complex Adaptive Systems; Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation

Abstract:
Several approaches are proposed to deal with the problem of the Automatic Schema Matching (ASM). The challenges and difficulties caused by the complexity and uncertainty characterizing both the process and the outcome of Schema Matching motivated us to investigate how bio-inspired emerging paradigm can help with understanding, managing, and ultimately overcoming those challenges. In this paper, we explain how we approached Automatic Schema Matching as a systemic and Complex Adaptive System (CAS) and how we modeled it using the approach of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS). This effort gives birth to a tool (prototype) for schema matching called Reflex-SMAS. A set of experiments demonstrates the viability of our approach on two main aspects: (i) effectiveness (increasing the quality of the found matchings) and (ii) efficiency (reducing the effort required for this efficiency). Our approach represents a significant paradigm-shift, in the field of Automatic Schema Matching.

Pages: 43 to 50

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: February 18, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-609-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018