Merging uncertain information with semantic heterogeneity in XML

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 230-258

  Hunter, Anthony ^a   Liu, Weiru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information fusion; Information integration; Knowledge fusion; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; INFORMATION FUSION; MERGING; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE FUSION; LOGIC-BASED FRAMEWORKS; LOGIC-BASED FUSIONS; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SEMI-STRUCTURED INFORMATION; UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

XML;

EID: 33644502612     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-005-0220-y     Document Type: Article

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