... and collaborative process, developers face challenges in managing multiple ontologies, including comparing, aligning, and merging ... different formalisms. The uniform framework presented in this article assists users with these tasks by leveraging data and algorithms developed for one tool in other tools. (Journal, no paper type, Ontology Alignment, Ontology ...
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... and complex schemas. Such schemas are increasingly written in the standard language W3C XML schema, especially in E-business applications. The high expressive power and versatility of this ...
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... effect as applying successively the two schema mappings. In this paper, we give a rigorous semantics to the composition of schema ... We first study the important case of schema mappings in which the specification is given by a finite set of source-to-target ...
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... such applications by providing a database infrastructure in which a set of high-level algebraic operators, such as Match, Merge, and ... and develop novel algorithms for implementing them. In particular, we present an innovative algorithm based on fixpoint ...
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... when two agents or services use different ontologies. In the existing literature, the focus has so far been on improving the ... than existing prominent approaches. Then, we show in experiments that this theoretical investigation translates into practical ...
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... similarity considerations are the basis for this. In this paper an approach to integrate various similarity methods is presented. In brief, we determine similarity through rules which have been encoded by ...
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... 225.15 KB In a Web database that dynamically provides information in response to user queries, two distinct schemas, interface schema (the schema ... matching across query interfaces of Web databases. In this paper, we propose a novel schema model that distinguishes the ...
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... matches. iMAP reformulates schema matching as a search in an often very large or infinite match space. To search effectively, it ...
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... engines selling similar products is of great importance in allowing users to search and compare products from multiple sites with ease. ... which is inefficient and difficult to maintain. In this paper, we present WISE-Integrator – a tool that performs automatic ...
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... will allow us to build on the extensive research in schema evolution. However, there are also important differences between ... knowledge models. A lot of problems that existed only in theory in database research come to the forefront as practical problems in ...
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... Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems URL: ... interoperability. Examples of such applications arise in myriad do- mains, including e-commerce, knowledge management, e-learning, ...
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