A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
SIGMOD '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Query reformulation for dynamic information integration
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on intelligent integration of information
Information modeling and relational databases: from conceptual analysis to logical design
Information modeling and relational databases: from conceptual analysis to logical design
Fundamentals of Data Warehouses
Fundamentals of Data Warehouses
Data modelling versus ontology engineering
ACM SIGMOD Record
Some Ontology Engineering Processes and Their Supporting Technologies
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
ConQuer: A Conceptual Query Language
ER '96 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Conceptual Queries Using ConQuer-II
ER '97 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
An ontology engineering methodology for DOGMA
Applied Ontology - Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
Ontology Engineering --- The DOGMA Approach
Advances in Web Semantics I
Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database
OTM '09 Proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009 on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Part II
Context dependency management in ontology engineering: a formal approach
Journal on data semantics VIII
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Towards ontological commitments with Ω-RIDL markup language
RuleML'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Advances in rule interchange and applications
Re-engineering business rules for a government innovation information portal
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems
ADBIS'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advances in databases and information systems
Ontology-based matching of security attributes for personal data access in e-health
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part II
Comparing XML files with a DOGMA ontology to generate Ω-RIDL annotations
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems
Object role modelling for ontology engineering in the DOGMA framework
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
Judicial support systems: ideas for a privacy ontology-based case analyzer
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
T-Lex: a role-based ontology engineering tool
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
Ontology guided data integration for computational prioritization of disease genes
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part I
An ontology engineering methodology for DOGMA
Applied Ontology - Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
GOSPL: a method and tool for fact-oriented hybrid ontology engineering
ADBIS'12 Proceedings of the 16th East European conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems
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To make database content available via the internet, its intended shared meaning, i.e. an interpretation is required of the database (schema) symbols in terms of a so-called ontology. Such an ontology specifies not only concepts and their relationships in some language, but also includes the manner in which an application or service is permitted to make use of these concepts. Ontologies therefore also play a key role in making databases interoperate. The DOGMA approach to ontology engineering is specifically adapted to the classical model-theoretic view of (relational) databases. Noteably, it rigorously separates an ontology base of elementary lexical fact types called lexons, from the rules and constraints governing the concepts referred to by the lexons in the ontology base. These rules are reified in so-called ontological commitments of applications to the ontology base. In this paper we formalise and make precise the structure of this commitment layer by defining Ω-RIDL, a new type of so-called commitment language. Examples derived from its use in a non-trivial case study are provided. We illustrate how some of its key constructs, designed to specify mediators by mapping databases to an ontology base, can conveniently be reused in a conceptual query language, and report on its ongoing implementation.