RiMOM: A dynamic multistrategy ontology alignment framework

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1218-1232

  Li, Juanzi ^a   Tang, Jie ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Luo, Qiong ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous databases; Knowledge and data engineering tools and techniques; Ontology languages

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATA; HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES; KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE STRATEGY; ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT; ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES; STRATEGY SELECTION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ALIGNMENT; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 67651156071     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2008.202     Document Type: Article

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