On ontology mapping in factory automation domain

This paper is intended to provide a start point towards developing accurate mathematical means of achieving inter-vendor interoperability in factory automation domain. The proposed approach assumes a description of the physical laws of the basic operations performed by the devices is incorporated into the OWL-S classes at operation ontology level. This way a part of the translation process may be reduced to analysis of the compatibility of linear systems of equations obtained for blocks of operations polled from the analyzed ontologies. One-to-one, one-to-many (many-to-one) and many-to-many mapping cases are analyzed separately and details on the theoretical grounds of the translation procedure are given. A research roadmap is presented.