Semantic integration: a survey of ontology-based approaches

This paper describes the design and implementation through prototyping of the architecture of a system for browsing and retrieving museum information based on concepts. Ontology for the museum domain, based on the CIDOC Concept Reference Model, is…

Building new business information systems from reusable components is today an approach widely adopted and used. Using this approach in analysis and design phases presents a great interest and requires the use of a particular class of components…

In this paper, for integrating of data on car parts we model information of parts that PDM system manages. Ontology of car parts applies existing ontology mapping research to integrate into car ontology. We propose a method for semantic integration…

One of the main challenges for enterprise application integration is the semantically correct integration of systems. There are many approaches that aim to address this problem, but most of them focus mainly on technical and syntactical aspects.…

We review the use on ontologies for the integration of heterogeneous information sources. Based on an in-depth evaluation of existing approaches to this problem we discuss how ontologies are used to support the integration task. We evaluate and…

Several hundred internet accessible life science databases with constantly growing contents and varying areas of specialization are publicly available via the internet. Database integration, consequently, is a fundamental prerequisite to be able to…

Efficient supply chain management (SCM) requires consistent exchange and sharing of information semantics, which is often hindered by semantic clashes among heterogeneous applications. This paper proposes an ontology-based architecture for…

We address what is still a scarcity of general mathematical foundations for ontology-based semantic integration underlying current knowledge engineering methodologies in decentralised and distributed environments. After recalling the first-order…

XML is becoming the standard for data interchange on the web. However, XML and its schema languages do not express semantics but rather structure, such as nesting information. Therefore, semantically equivalent documents often present different…

In the semantic web not only the syntax and structure of data is defined, but also the semantics. An ontology can be used to describe these semantics. A database, in which an ontology and its instances are stored together, is called an ontology…