Declarative specification of z39.50 wrappers using description logics

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

Volumn 1696, Issue , 1999, Pages 383-402

  Velegrakis, Yannis ^a   Christophides, Vassilis ^b   Constantopoulos, Panos ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA DESCRIPTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; MAPPING; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS; XML;

ACCESS POINTS; ADDED-VALUE SERVICES; CLIENT /SERVER; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; FORMAL VALIDATION; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; SCHEMATIC DISCREPANCY;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84958063521     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48155-9_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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