A methodology for the semi-automatic creation of data-driven detailed business ontologies

Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 758-773

  Paredes Moreno, Antonio ^a   Martínez López, Francisco J ^b   Schwartz, David G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

e Business; eCommerce; Enterprise ontologies; Interoperability; Knowledge integration; Semantic of data integration; Semantic of integration information; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; E-BUSINESS; ECOMMERCE; ENTERPRISE ONTOLOGY; INFORMATION SEMANTICS; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION;

DATA HANDLING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; INTEROPERABILITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 77955305184     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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