Extracting information from heterogeneous information sources using ontologically specified target views

Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 169-212

  Biskup, Joachim ^a   Embley, David W ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA WAREHOUSES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MAPPING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONTOLOGY; TARGET VIEWS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037406534     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(02)00009-1     Document Type: Article

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