One important step in integrating heterogeneous databases is matching equivalent attributes: Determining which fields in two databasesrefer to the samedata. The meaning of informa...
In spite of many standards efforts, Web services with similar or compatible functionalities often have heterogeneous semantics. One reason is the disparate ontologies used for ser...
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Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...
The Semantic Web is facing the important challenge to maintain its promise of a real world-wide graph of interconnected resources. Unfortunately, while URIs almost guarantee a dir...