Information systems interoperability: What lies beneath?

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 595-632

  Park, Jinsoo ^a,c   Ram, Sudha ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information integration; Mediators; Ontology; Semantic conflict resolution; Semantic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION INTEGRATION; MEDIATORS; ONTOLOGY; REMOTE METHOD INVOCATION (RMI); SEMANTIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 9144233716     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1028099.1028103     Document Type: Review

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