Metadata management is an essential factor in data warehousing. In data warehousing environments, data is transformed and integrated into a single database from multiple autonomou...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
Schema integration is the problem of creating a unified target schema based on a set of existing source schemas that relate to each other via specified correspondences. The unifie...
Laura Chiticariu, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa
While providing a uniform syntax and a semistructured data model, XML does not express semantics but only structure such as nesting information. In this paper, we consider the prob...
The Web is a distributed network of information sources where the individual sources are autonomously created and maintained. Consequently, syntactic and semantic heterogeneity of ...