Title :
Integrating databases in Internet
Author :
Liu, Zhibin ; Du, Xiaoyong ; Ishii, Naohiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Intelligence & Comput. Sci., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
One of the difficult problems in database integration is to find and resolve the semantic heterogeneity of the component databases. In this paper, we present a methodology for database integration by using an ontology. The ontology is mainly used to help the designers to understand the semantics of database objects. Anyone who wants to share his database with others should provide an export schema of the database and a mapping between the schema and one or many standard ontologies. According to this mapping, the designer can easily find and resolve the semantic heterogeneity of the component databases and build an integrated schema
Keywords :
Internet; distributed databases; Internet; database integration; database object semantics; database sharing; export schema; heterogeneous component databases; integrated database schema; schema-ontology mapping; semantic heterogeneity; Australia; Buildings; Communications technology; Computer science; Deductive databases; Intelligent systems; Internet; Ontologies; Physics computing; Remuneration;
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems, 1998. Proceedings KES '98. 1998 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4316-6
DOI :
10.1109/KES.1998.725998
