Ontologies are not the panacea in data integration: A flexible coordinator to mediate context construction

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-35

  Ouksel, Aris M ^a   Ahmed, Iqbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DATA INTEGRATION; HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC RECONCILIATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032677067     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008626109650     Document Type: Article

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