Effective data integration in the presence of temporal semantic conflicts

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning

Volumn 11, Issue , 2004, Pages 109-116

  Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Madnick, Stuart E ^a   Siegel, Michael D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

DATA INTEGRATION; DATA SOURCES; TEMPORAL DATABASES; TEMPORAL SEMANTIC CONFLICTS;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 5644234005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.529722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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