Jérôme David, Jérôme Euzenat, Comparison between ontology distances (preliminary results), in: Proc. 7th conference on international semantic web conference (ISWC), Karlsruhe (DE), (Amit Sheth, Steffen Staab, Mike Dean, Massimo Paolucci, Diana Maynard, Timothy Finin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (eds), The semantic web, Lecture notes in computer science 5318, 2008), pp245-260, 2008
There are many reasons for measuring a distance between ontologies. In particular, it is useful to know quickly if two ontologies are close or remote before deciding to match them. To that extent, a distance between ontologies must be quickly computable. We present constraints applying to such measures and several possible ontology distances. Then we evaluate experimentally some of them in order to assess their accuracy and speed.