Resolving semantic heterogeneity in schema integration: An ontology based approach

Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Collected Papers from the Second International Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 297-308

  Hakimpour, Farshad ^a   Geppert, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Database Integration; Formal Ontologies; Semantic Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035789897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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