Semantic Conflict Resolution Ontology (SCROL): An Ontology for Detecting and Resolving Data and Schema-Level Semantic Conflicts

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-202

  Ram, Sudha ^a   Park, Jinsoo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous databases; Ontology; Semantic conflict resolution; Semantic modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; HTML; INTEROPERABILITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; XML;

HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION; SEMANTIC MODELING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 1342308832     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2004.1269597     Document Type: Article

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