Scalable interoperability through the use of COIN lightweight ontology

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

Volumn 4623 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 37-50

  Zhu, Hongwei ^a,b   Madnick, Stuart E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Formal ontology; Lightweight ontology; Mediation; Scalability; Semantic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY;

CONTEXT; DATA INTEROPERABILITY; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LIGHTWEIGHT ONTOLOGY; MEDIATION; MODERN COMPUTING; SCALABILITY; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SEOUL , KOREA; SEPTEMBER 11; VERY LARGE DATA;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 49949116551     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75474-9_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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