Using the Notion of Structural Congruence to Support Adaptive Integration

In this paper we propose using the notion of structural congruence to describe and automatically adapt autonomous agents so that they can execute each others messages. This approach takes as its starting point some of the tremendous challenges inherent in operationally bridging the semantic gap between various applications. This is particularly pertaining to ubiquitous computing and large-scale computing in complex domains. Other approaches, such as the notion of `semantic webs,´ are problematic, since they tend to rely at the outermost level on human interpretation. Exploiting the notion of congruence, this paper suggests trying to send the next outward, more general, structurally congruent component. This is shown to work in an example of differently implemented text editors.