This paper outlines an ontology for characterising architecture frameworks. The ontology is based on the metamodel of MAF, and is currently being tried out on a set of well-known e...
Our work deals with schema or ontology matching and is driven by the following statements: (1) Most of works only consider intensional description of schemas; (2) They mostly use s...
One of the most important tasks performed in the early stages of a data warehouse project is the analysis of the structure and content of the existing data sources and their inten...
We present a new algorithm for reasoning in the description logic SHIQ, which is the most prominent fragment of the Web Ontology Language OWL. The algorithm is based on ordered bi...
Human interaction occurs always in a specific context and in a particular environment, and a common knowledge base about them is essential for understanding each other. By immersi...