Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precise...
Because there is still no agreed-upon global ontology, Web services supplied by different providers typically have individual and unique semantics, described by independently devel...
Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutierrez, Benit...
In this paper we propose a mediator architecture for the querying and integration of Web-accessible XML data sources. Our contributions are (i) the definition of a simple but expr...
We present ISENS, a distributed, end-to-end, ontologybased information integration system. In response to a user’s query, our system is capable of retrieving facts from data sou...
Today's enterprises face critical needs in integrating disparate information spread over several data sources inside and even outside the organization. Most organizations alre...