| Input: is advertised ontology dataset and is required ontology. Ontologies are described |
| using individuals, classes, attributes/properties, relations, restrictions, rules and axioms like |
| components. Ontology is in the format A[Classes, P roperties] and R[classes, properties] |
| Output: Matching type of two classes of Ontology |
| Assumption: Ontology dataset is homogenous |
| (1) Ontology class match_algo |
| obA-advertisement and obR-Requested resource concepts |
| UnionIntersectionMatch |
| (2) function UNIONINTERSECTIONMATCHCLASSES(obA, obR) |
| (3) |
| (4) if () != “no-match” then return |
| (5) else if () != “no-match” then return |
| (6) else if () != “no-match”) then return |
| plug-in match |
| (7) else if calculatesub classes(obR).contains(obA) then return “plug-in” |
| subsume match |
| (8) else if calculatesub classes(obA).contains(obR) then return “subsume” |
| (9) else if obA.equals(obR) then return (1) |
| (10) else if obA.listEquivalentClasses().contains(obR) then return (1) |
| (11) else return -(1) |
| (12) end if |
| (13) end function |
| isUnionOf |
| (14) function ISUNIONOF(obA, obR) |
| (15) if obA.isUnionClass() then |
| (16) |
| (17) if operands.contains(obR) then return “plug-in” |
| (18) else if calculatesub classes(obA).contains(obR) then return “subsume” |
| (19) end if |
| (20) else if obR.isUnionClass() then |
| (21) |
| (22) if operands.contains(obA) then return “subsume” |
| (23) else if calculatesub classes(obR).contains(obA) then return “plug-in” |
| (24) end if |
| (25) end ifreturn “no-match” |
| (26) end function |
| isComplementOf |
| (27) function ISCOMPLEMENTOF(obA, obR) |
| (28) if obA.isComplementClass() then |
| (29) |
| (30) if operands.contains(obR) then return “complement” |
| (31) if calculatesub classes(operands).contains(obR) then return “complement” |
| (32) end if |
| (33) end if |
| (34) end if |
| (35) if obR.isComplementClass() then |
| (36) |
| (37) if operands.contains(obA) then return “complement” |
| (38) if calculatesub classes(operands).contains(obA) then return “complement” |
| (39) end if |
| (40) end if |
| (41) end ifreturn != “no-match” |
| (42) end function |
| isIntersectionOf |
| (43) function ISINTERSECTIONOF(obA, obR) |
| (44) if obA.isIntersectionClass() then |
| (45) |
| (46) if operands.contains(obR) or calculatesub classes(operands).contains(obR) then return “subsume”; |
| (47) end if |
| (48) else if obR.isIntersectionClass() then |
| (49) |
| (50) if operands.contains(obA) or calculatesub classes(operands).contains(obA) then return “plug-in” |
| (51) end if |
| (52) elsereturn “no-match” |
| (53) end if |
| (54) end function |
