Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
Conceptual schemas with abstractions making flat conceptual schemas more comprehensible
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Conceptual schema analysis: techniques and applications
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
Structuring Primitives for a Dictionary of Entity Relationship Data Schemas
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Clustering relations into abstract ER schemas for database reverse engineering
Science of Computer Programming - Software maintenance and reengineering (CSMR 99)
Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
Semantic integration: a survey of ontology-based approaches
ACM SIGMOD Record
Information intelligence: metadata for information discovery, access, and integration
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Possible Ontologies: How Reality Constrains the Development of Relevant Ontologies
IEEE Internet Computing
DL-Lite: tractable description logics for ontologies
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Reasoning over extended ER models
ER'07 Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Forgetting concepts in DL-lite
ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
ONTOCOM: a cost estimation model for ontology engineering
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Design and use of ER repositories: methodologies and experiences in egovernment initiatives
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Design, redesign and publication of linked schema repositories in the large
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
Digital ecosystems: challenges and prospects
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
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Conceptual schema integration can be exploited at the conceptual metadata level to provide organizations that deal with a large amount of data sources with an integrated view on the overall information managed. In this paper we discuss the kind of language that can be exploited for such conceptual-level integration tasks in the large, and we introduce the ER dialect called Abstract ERIA (AERIA). The introduction of such a language is based on theoretical considerations and on past experiences in conceptual schema integration. The language is provided with a Web compliant front-end concrete syntax based on OWL-DL to support the compact design of the schema and the definition of integration and abstraction relations between the schema elements. A formal semantic interpretation of the AERIA language is discussed; this interpretation allows for a translation of AERIA schemas into standard Web ontologies to support model reuse and exchange.