Title :
SI-Designer: a tool for intelligent integration of information
Author :
Beneventano, D. ; Bergamaschi, S. ; Benetti, I. ; Corni, A. ; Guerra, F. ; Malvezzi, G.
Author_Institution :
Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Abstract :
SI-Designer (Source Integrator Designer) is a designer support tool for semi-automatic integration of heterogeneous sources schemata (relational, object and semi-structured sources); it has been implemented within the MOMIS project and it carries out integration following a semantic approach which uses intelligent description logics based techniques, clustering techniques and an extended ODMG-ODL language, ODL(I/sup 3/), to represent schemata, extracted, integrated information. Starting from the sources´ ODL(I/sup 3/) descriptions (local schemata) SI-Designer supports the designer in the creation of an integrated view of all the sources (global schema) which is expressed in the same ODL(I/sup 3/) language. We propose SI-Designer as a tool to build virtual catalogs in the e-commerce environment.
Keywords :
data handling; distributed databases; electronic commerce; formal logic; knowledge based systems; object-oriented languages; MOMIS project; ODL(I/sup 3/); SI-Designer; Source Integrator Designer; clustering techniques; designer support tool; e-commerce environment; extended ODMG-ODL language; global schema; heterogeneous sources schemata; integrated information; integrated view; intelligent description logics based techniques; intelligent information integration; local schemata; semantic approach; semi-automatic integration; semi-structured sources; virtual catalogs; Data mining; Database languages; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic catalog; Explosions; Instruments; Intelligent structures; Internet; Ontologies; Postal services;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0981-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2001.927284
