Interschema correspondence establishment in a cooperative OWL-based multi-information server grid environment

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1011-1031

  Tawil, A R ^a   Montebello, M ^b   Bahsoon, R ^c   Gray, W A ^d   Fiddian, N J ^d  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compositional modelling; Domain ontologies; Mediators; Schema enrichment; Semantic interoperability

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COMPOSITIONAL MODELLING; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; MEDIATORS; SCHEMA ENRICHMENT; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

SERVERS;

EID: 36549018652     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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