Managing multiple and distributed ontologies on the Semantic Web

VLDB Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 286-302

  Maedche, A ^a   Motik, B ^b   Stojanovic, L ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multiple and distributed ontologies; Ontology evolution

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ONTOLOGIES; SEMANTIC WEB;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0344272280     PISSN: 10668888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00778-003-0102-4     Document Type: Article

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