GENOMA: GENeric Ontology Matching Architecture

Even though a few architectures exist to support the difficult ontology matching task, it happens often they are not reconfigurable (or just a little) related to both ontology features and applications needs. We introduce GENOMA, an architecture supporting development of Ontolo-gy Matching (OM) tools with the aims to reuse, possibly, existing modules each of them dealing with a specific task/subtasks of the OM process. In GENOMA flexibility and extendibility are considered mandatory features along with the ability to parallelize and distribute the processing load on dif-ferent systems. Thanks to a dedicated graphical user interface, GENOMA can be used by expert users, as well as novice, that can validate the resulting architecture. We highlight as main features of developed architecture: • to select, combine and set different parameters • to evaluate the matching tool applied to big size ontologies • efficiency of the OM tool • automatic balancing of the processing load on different systems