Communication in open heterogeneous multi agent systems is hampered by lack of shared ontologies. To overcome these problems, we propose a layered communication protocol which inc...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dig...
: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...
In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...
Semantic heterogeneity of information is a major barrier of information and system interoperability. Defining ontology of data and mapping ontologies among heterogeneous informati...
We study a metamodel for the Entity Relationship (ER) and the Relational data model. We do this by describing the syntax of the ER data model by introducing classes for ER schemata...