This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the First and Second VLDB Workshop Ontologies-based techniques for DataBases and Information Systems, held in Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005 and Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006.
The topics include ontology-based interoperability and schema matching, management of ontological bases and links between ontologogies and knowledge.
Author(s): Ahmed Alasoud, Volker Haarslev (auth.), Martine Collard (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4623
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 156
Tags: Database Management; Data Structures; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Front Matter....Pages -
A Multi-level Matching Algorithm for Combining Similarity Measures in Ontology Integration....Pages 1-17
Class Structures and Lexical Similarities of Class Names for Ontology Matching....Pages 18-36
Scalable Interoperability Through the Use of COIN Lightweight Ontology....Pages 37-50
Domain Ontologies Evolutions to Solve Semantic Conflicts....Pages 51-67
Requirements Ontology and Multi-representation Strategy for Database Schema Evolution....Pages 68-84
Improving the Development of Data Warehouses by Enriching Dimension Hierarchies with WordNet....Pages 85-101
Management of Large Spatial Ontology Bases....Pages 102-118
Knowledge Extraction Using a Conceptual Information System (ExCIS)....Pages 119-134
The Semantic Desktop: A Semantic Personal Information Management System Based on RDF and Topic Maps....Pages 135-151
Back Matter....Pages -