Global schema generation using formal ontologies

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

Volumn 2503, Issue , 2002, Pages 307-321

  Hakimpour, Farshad ^a   Geppert, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Credit Suisse group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

FEDERATED DATABASE SYSTEM; INTEGRATING SCHEMAS; LOGICAL LANGUAGE; REASONING SYSTEM; SCHEMA INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY RELATIONS;

MERGING;

EID: 84974711040     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45816-6_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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