Mapping specification has been recognised as a critical bottleneck to the large scale deployment of data integration systems. A mapping is a description using which data structured...
Lu Mao, Khalid Belhajjame, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro...
A recurring manual task in data integration, ontology alignment or model management is finding mappings between complex meta data structures. In order to reduce the manual effor...
The project CommonGIS1 aims at building a system allowing users to view and analyze geographically referenced thematic data. The system is oriented to the general public, i.e. peop...
One of the main limitations when accessing the web is the lack of explicit structure, whose presence may help in understanding data semantics. Schema for web data can be constructe...
In response to the widespread use of the XML format for document representation and message exchange, major database vendors support XML in terms of persistence, querying and inde...