Discovering the semantics of relational tables through mappings

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

Volumn 4244 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-32

  An, Yuan ^a   Borgida, Alex ^b   Mylopoulos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mappings; Ontologies; Semantic interoperability; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MAPPING; ONTOLOGY; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP TECHNIQUES; PUBLIC DOMAIN; SEMANTIC MAPPINGS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 38749135909     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11890591_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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