— As each of us perceives and conceptualizes the same world differently, imposing a single global schema for all users can seriously interfere with individual work and lead to er...
Abstract. The problem of finding an agreement on the meaning of heterogeneous schemas is one of the key issues in the development of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we propose a ...
We consider the following scenario for a mapping system: given a source schema, a target schema, and a set of value correspondences between these two schemas, generate an executab...
In a recent paper, Martens et al. introduced a specification mechanism for XML tree languages, based on rules of the form r s, where r, s are regular expressions. Sets of such ru...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of building scalable semantic overlay networks. Our approach follows the principle of data independence by separating a logical layer, th...