The role of ontologies in data integration

Engineering Intelligent Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 245-252

  Cruz, Isabel F ^a   Xiao, Huiyong ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Central and peer to peer integration; Data integration; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; METADATA;

CENTRAL AND PEER TO PEER INTEGRATION; DATA INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGIES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33644502245     PISSN: 14728915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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