Using semantic values to facilitate interoperability among heterogeneous information systems
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Query reformulation for dynamic information integration
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on intelligent integration of information
Database techniques for the World-Wide Web: a survey
ACM SIGMOD Record
Semantic integration of heterogeneous information sources
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on heterogeneous information resources need semantic access
Description Logics in Data Management
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
VLDB '91 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Materialization: A Powerful and Ubiquitous Abstraction Pattern
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Information Integration: Conceptual Modeling and Reasoning Support
COOPIS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Semantic and schematic similarities between database objects: a context-based approach
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Reviewing the design of DAML+OIL: an ontology language for the semantic web
Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
Query-answering algorithms for information agents
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
ε-connections of abstract description systems
Artificial Intelligence
Interpreting distributed ontologies
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Supporting application development in the semantic web
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
A Tableau-Based Federated Reasoning Algorithm for Modular Ontologies
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Reasoning and change management in modular ontologies
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Knowledge Management to Support Situation-aware Risk Management in Autonomous, Self-managing Agents
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
On the decidability of role mappings between modular ontologies
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Non-conservative extension of a peer in a P2P inference system
AI Communications
Peer-to-peer semantic coordination
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
A SAT-based algorithm for context matching
CONTEXT'03 Proceedings of the 4th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
Evaluating formalisms for modular ontologies in distributed information systems
RR'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Web reasoning and rule systems
OntoPath: a language for retrieving ontology fragments
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part I
Editorial: ANEMONE: An environment for modular ontology development
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Logic programming, knowledge representation, and nonmonotonic reasoning
Automatic building of an appropriate global ontology
ADBIS'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advances in databases and information systems
On the semantics of linking and importing in modular ontologies
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Package-based description logics – preliminary results
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Modular ontologies – a formal investigation of semantics and expressivity
ASWC'06 Proceedings of the First Asian conference on The Semantic Web
DILS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Contextual ontologies: motivations, challenges, and solutions
ADVIS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advances in Information Systems
Decentralized semantic threat graphs
DBSec'12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy
An ontology-centric architecture for extensible scientific data management systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
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A central problem of co-operative information systems is the ability to integrate information from multiple sources. Although this problem has been studied for several decades, there is a need for a more refined approach in those cases where the original sources form a loose federation, each maintaining its own independent view of the world. In particular, we motivate with examples the utility of directed non-injective mappings between the individuals in the domains of multiple IS. We then extend the logical formalism of Description Logics, which has previously served successfully in IS integration and is currently being used in semantic-web ontolgies, to handle such mappings. The result is called Distributed Description Logics, and we consider some of its desirable properties, as well as some theorems concerning its computational aspects.