Ontology alignment—a survey with focus on visually supported semi-automatic techniques

Future Internet

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-258

  Granitzer, Michael ^a,c   Sabol, Vedran ^a   Onn, Kow Weng ^b   Lukose, Dickson ^b   Tochtermann, Klaus ^c,d  

^a KNOW CENTER   (Austria)

^b TECHNOLOGY PARK MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Ontology alignment; Semantic technologies; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

FUTURE INTERNET; ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT; REUSE AND INTEGRATIONS; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; STATE OF THE ART; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84856591714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19995903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/fi2030238     Document Type: Review

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