The integration of heterogeneous data sources with even heterogeneous semantic meanings poses a challenge for data and system integrators. Ontology Alignment (OA) tries to identif...
Thomas Moser, Kathrin Schimper, Richard Mordinyi, ...
Abstract— This paper presents our work on supporting flexible query evaluation over large distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous sources. Flexibility means that the query ev...
Abstract. The design of architectural environments has to take into account various sources of heterogeneous information. Not only quantitative spatial constraints and qualitative ...
We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator’s...
Record linkage refers to techniques for identifying records associated with the same real-world entities. Record linkage is not only crucial in integrating multi-source databases ...