Data/Ontology Integration Systems
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ONION
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P. Mitra, G. Wiederhold , and M. Kersten. A Graph-Oriented Model
for Articulation of Ontology Interdependencies. In: Proceedings Conference on
Extending Database Technology 2000 (EDBT'2000), Konstanz, Germany, 2000.
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Chimaera
- D. L. McGuinness, R. Fikes, J. Rice, and S. Wilder. An
environment for merging and testing large ontologies. In Proc. of KR-00,
2000. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/kr2000-camera-ready-copy.doc
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and Steve Wilder, ``The
Chimaera Ontology Environment,'' In the Proceedings of the The
Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2000),
Austin, Texas, July 30 - August 3, 2000.
FCA-Merge
- G. Stumme and A. Madche. FCA-Merge: Bottom-up merging of
ontologies. In 7th Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '01), pages
225--230, Seattle, WA, 2001. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/stumme01fcamerge.html
- G. Stumme and A. Maedche. Ontology Merging for Federated
Ontologies on the Semantic Web. In Proceedings of the International Workshop for
Foundations of Models for Information Integration (FMII-2001), Viterbo, Italy,
September 2001. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/stumme01ontology.html
Summaries
ARTEMIS & MOMIS
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Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources. Trans. On Data and Knowledge
Eng., to appear.
- [BCV99]Bergamaschi, S., S. Castano, M. Vincini: Semantic Integration
of Semistructured and Structured Data Sources. SIGMOD Record 28(1), 1999.
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G.Malvezzi, M. Melchiori, M. Vincini: Information Integration: the MOMIS
Project Demonstration. Proc. VLDB 2000, 611-614.
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and Integrating Data from Multiple Sources: the MOMIS Approach. Special
Issue on Intelligent Information Integration, Data & Knowledge Engineering,
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BUSTER
Clio
- Haas, L.M., R.J. Miller, B. Niswonger, M. Tork Roth, P.M. Schwarz, E.L.
Wimmers: Transforming
Heterogeneous Data with Database Middleware: Beyond Integration. IEEE
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A representation
by Helen Chen
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Middleware: Beyond Integration (398KB PDF file) [Bulleting of the
Technical Committee on Data Engineering, March 1999, Vol. 22 No.
1].
- Clio: Schema Mapping as Query
Discovery (318KB PDF file) [VLDB 2000 Papers].
- Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement
of Schema Mappings (257KB PDF file) [SIGMOD 2001 Paper].
- The Clio Project: Managing
Heterogeneity (154KB PDF file) [SIGMOD Record, Vol. 30, No. 1,
March 2001].
- Attribute Classification Using Feature
Analysis (83KB PDF file) [ICDE 2002 Poster
Presentation].
- Clio: A Semi-Automatic Tool for Schema
Mapping (190KB PDF file) [Demo on SIGMOD 2001].
- Mapping XML and Relational Schemas with
Clio (63KB PDF file) [Demo on ICDE 2002].
COIN
- Cheng Hian Goh. Representing and Reasoning about Semantic
Conflicts in Heterogeneous Information Sources. Phd, MIT, 1997
COMA
Cupid
Delta
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1995.1
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DIKE
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DWQ
- Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, and Maurizio Lenzerini.
Description logics for information integration. In Computational Logic: From
Logic Programming into the Future (In honour of Bob Kowalski), Lecture Notes in
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HICAL
ILA
INDUS
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Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition from Heterogeneous,
Distributed, Autonomous Biological Data Sources. In: IJCAI-01 Workshop on
Knowledge Discovery from Heterogeneous, Distributed, Dynamic, Autonomous Data
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- Relational Data Mining Approaches, as Chapter 2 in Hector Leiva. 2002. Thesis: MRDTL: A
Multi-Relational Decision Tree Learning Algorithm. Masters Thesis.
- INDUS SYSTEM, as Chapter 3 in Jaime Reinoso-Castillo. 2002. Thesis: Ontolgy-Driven
Information Extraction and Integration from Autonomous, Heterogeneous,
Distributed Data Sources -- A Federated Query-Centric Approach. Masters
Thesis.
- ITR:
Algorithms and Software for Knowledge Acquisition from Heterogeneous Distributed
Data. National Science Foundation Vasant Honavar, (2002-2005).
- Honavar, V., Andorf, C., Caragea, D., Silvescu, A., and Sharma, T. (2001).
Agent-Based Systems for Data-Driven Knowledge Discovery from Distributed Data
Sources: From Specification to Implementation. In: Intelligent Agent Software
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Infomaster
KRAFT
- A. D. Preece, K.-Y. Hui, W. A. Gray, P. Marti, T. J. M.
Bench-Capon, D. M. Jones, and Z. Cui. The KRAFT Architecture for Knowledge
Fusion and Transformation. In 19th SGES Int. Conf. on Knowledge-based Systems
and Applied Articial Intelligence (ES'99). SpringerVerlag, 1999.
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LSD, COMAP, GLUE
and iMap
MECOTA
Holger Wache , TZI - Centre for Computing Technologies , University of Bremen, Germany
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~wache/
- Holger Wache. Towards rule-based context transformation in
mediators. In S. Conrad, W. Hasselbring, and G. Saake, editors, International
Workshop on Engineering Federated Information Systems (EFIS 99), K uhlungsborn,
Germany, 1999. Infix-Verlag. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wache99towards.html
OBSERVER
- E. Mena, V. Kashyap, A. Sheth and A. Illarramendi, "OBSERVER: An
approach for Query Processing in Global Information Systems based on
Interoperation across Pre-existing Ontologies," Proceedings of the 1 st IFCIS
International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS '96),
Brussels, Belgium, June 1996.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/article/mena00observer.html
- E. Mena,
A. Illarramendi, V. Kashyap, and A. Sheth. OBSERVER: an approach for
query processing in global information systems based on interoperation across
pre-existing ontologies. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 8(2):223--71,
2000. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/311175.html
OntoMapper
- Sushama Prasad, Yun Peng, and Tim Finin, A Tool For Mapping Between Two
Ontologies Using Explicit Information, Paper, AAMAS 2002 Workshop on
Ontologies and Agent Systems, Italy, July, 2002. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aaai02a/draft.pdf
PICSEL
- Francois Goasdou e, V eronique Lattes, and Marie-Christine
Rousset. The use of carin language and algorithms for information
integration: The picsel project,. International Journal of Cooperative
Information Systems (IJCIS), 9(4):383 -- 401, 1999.
Prompt and SMART
- N. F. Noy and M. A. Musen. Prompt: Algorithm and tool for automated ontology
merging and alignment. In AAAI/IAAI 2000, pages 450–455, Austin, TX, 2000.
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- Noy, N.F., and Musen, M.A. (1999). SMART: Automated Support for Ontology
Merging and Alignment. Submitted to the Twelth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition,
Modeling, and Management, 1999. Banff, Canada.",http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/247714.html
- Fridman Noy, N. and Musen, M. A. 1999. An Algorithm for Merging
and Aligning Ontologies: Automation and Tool Support. In Proceedings of the
Workshop on Ontology Management at the Sixteenth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99). Orlando, FL: AAAI Press.
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- Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen Evaluating Ontology-Mapping Tools: Requirements and
Experience http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/536506.html

- Anchor-PROMPT: Using Non-Local Context for Semantic Matching
by N. F. Noy & M. A. Musen. In the Proceedings of the Workshop
on Ontologies and Information Sharing at the Seventeenth International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), Seattle, WA,
August 200. Available as SMI technical report SMI-2001-0889
(2001)
SEMINT
- [LC2000] W. Li and C. Clifton. SEMINT:
A tool for identifying attribute correspondence in heterogeneous databases
using neural networks. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 33:49--84, 2000.
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and Information Systems, 2(1), 2000.
SHOE
- Heflin, J. and Hendler, J. (2000). Semantic interoperability on
the web. In Extreme Markup Languages 2000.
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- Heflin, J.; Hendler, J.; and Luke, S. 1999. SHOE: A Knowledge Representation
Language for Internet Applications, Technical Report, CS-TR-4078 (UMIACS
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- Heflin, J., Hendler, J. and Luke, S. (1998). Reading Between the
Lines: Using SHOE to Discover Implicit Knowledge from the Web. AAAI-98 Workshop
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Fensel, D., Hendler, J., Lieberman, H., and Wahlster, W. (Eds.), Spinning the
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Distributed Environment. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park.
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Intelligent Systems, 16(2):54-59, 2001
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Web: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the International Work-Conference on
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Sean Luke, Lee Spector, and David Rager. Ontology-Based Knowledge Discovery on the World-Wide Web, In AAAI96 Workshop on Internet-based
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SIMS
Yigal Arens Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
http://ai.isi.edu/people/profiles/arens.html
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AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1996.
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SKAT
TransScm
Tree Matching
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TSIMMIS
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Y.; Ullman, J.; and Widom, J. 1997.The TSIMMIS project: Integration of
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Tukwila
Xmapper
Other
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