A federated layer to integrate heterogeneous knowledge

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 142, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 79-97

  Buccella, Agustina ^a   Cechich, Alejandra ^a   Brisaboa, Nieves R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contexts; Federated Databases; Ontology; Semantics Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTICS;

CONTEXTS; FEDERATED DATABASES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS HETEROGENEITY;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 29244440128     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2004.09.045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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