A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
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Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Context interchange: new features and formalisms for the intelligent integration of information
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web
Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web
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The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Information integration using contextual knowledge and ontology merging
Information integration using contextual knowledge and ontology merging
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ACM SIGMOD Record
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Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: WIDM 2004
CONTEXT'03 Proceedings of the 4th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
SWDB'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Semantic Web and Databases
A Context-Based Approach to Reconciling Data Interpretation Conflicts in Web Services Composition
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
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There are many different kinds of ontologies used for different purposes in modern computing. A continuum exists from lightweight ontologies to formal ontologies. In this paper we compare and contrast the lightweight ontology and the formal ontology approaches to data interoperability. Both approaches have strengths and weaknesses, but they both lack scalability because of the n2 problem. We present an approach that combines their strengths and avoids their weaknesses. In this approach, the ontology includes only high level concepts; subtle differences in the interpretation of the concepts are captured as context descriptions outside the ontology. The resulting ontology is simple, thus it is easy to create. It also provides a structure for context descriptions. The structure can be exploited to facilitate automatic composition of context mappings. This mechanism leads to a scalable solution to semantic interoperability among disparate data sources and contexts.