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FOIS
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Process-Centric Ontological Approach for Integrating Geo-Sensor Data
We introduce a process-centric ontological approach to relate observed properties to geo-processes that influence those observations. These relations are used to handle semantic he...
Anusuriya Devaraju, Werner Kuhn
GI
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Ontology-based Registration of Entities for Data Integration in Large Biomedical Research Projects
Abstract: Large biomedical projects often include workflows running across institutional borders. In these workflows, data describing biomedical entities, such as patients, bio-m...
Toralf Kirsten, Alexander Kiel
DEXA
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
An a Priori Approach for Automatic Integration of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Databases
Data integration is the process that gives users access to multiple data sources though queries against a global schema. Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as the most imp...
Ladjel Bellatreche, Guy Pierra, Dung Nguyen Xuan, ...
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
121views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Semi-automatic Ontology Alignment for Geospatial Data Integration
In geospatial applications with heterogeneous databases, an ontology-driven approach to data integration relies on the alignment of the concepts of a global ontology that describe ...
Isabel F. Cruz, William Sunna, Anjli Chaudhry
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Query optimization for ontology-based information integration
In recent years, there has been an explosion of publicly available RDF and OWL data sources. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in such an environment, we present...
Yingjie Li, Jeff Heflin