Emergent semantics: Towards self-organizing scientific metadata

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3226, Issue , 2004, Pages 177-198

  Howe, Bill ^a   Tanna, Kuldeep ^a   Turner, Paul ^a   Maier, David ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METADATA; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

APPROPRIATE SCHEMATA; DATA TRANSFORMATION; DATABASE APPLICATIONS; DATABASE DESIGN; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; MAINTENANCE COST; METADATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; QUERY FORMULATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 35048821932     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30145-5_11     Document Type: Article

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