The Semantic Web will allow software agents to understand and reason about data provided by Web applications. Unfortunately, formal ontologies, needed to express data semantics, ar...
Matthias Ferdinand, Christian Zirpins, David Trast...
A table object, defined and described in XML, is treated as the basic unit in a free-link topology that enables multiple inheritances for each node. In this paper, a novel table n...
Semantic mapping is one of the important components underlying the data sharing systems. As is known, constructing and maintaining such mappings both are necessary yet extremely h...
Model management is a new approach to meta data management that offers a higher level programming interface than current techniques. The main abstractions are models (e.g., schema...
Mapping composition is a fundamental operation in metadata driven applications. Given a mapping over schemas 1 and 2 and a mapping over schemas 2 and 3, the composition problem is...
Philip A. Bernstein, Todd J. Green, Sergey Melnik,...