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...
The demand for ontologies is rapidly growing especially due to developments in knowledge management, E-commerce and the Semantic Web. Building an ontology and a background knowled...
It has been a few years since the semantic Web was initiated by W3C, but its status has not been quantitatively measured. It is crucial to understand the status at this early stag...
A lot of functionality is needed when an application, such as a museum cataloguing system, is extended with semantic capabilities, for example ontological indexing functionality or...
Ontology mapping is the key to data interoperability in the semantic web vision. Computing mappings is the first step to applications such as query rewriting, instance sharing, we...
Sean M. Falconer, Natalya Fridman Noy, Margaret-An...