We review the use on ontologies for the integration of heterogeneous information sources.
Based on an in-depth evaluation of existing approaches to this problem we discuss how …

Data warehouses are databases of a specific kind that periodically collect information about
the activities being performed by an organization. This information is then accumulated over …

The large-scale and almost ubiquitous availability of information has become as much of a
curse as it is a blessing. The more information is available, the harder it is to locate any …

Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic,
subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target …

The Semantic Web o? ers new options for information processes. Dr. Visser is dealing with
twocore issuesin this area: the integrationofdata onthe sem-tic level and the problem of …

We present a new approach, which proposes to minimize the numerous problems existing in
order to have fully interoperable GIS. We discuss the existence of these heterogeneity …

Travel and tourism represents the leading application in b2c e-commerce, due to several
reasons: tourism is an information business, it has a rather a long value chain, and since the …

The so-called information society demands for complete access to available information,
which is often heterogeneous and distributed. Most information systems use specific data …

Internet is a common information space populated with many entities (eg, Internet of Things)
with different information system types. Each of them has its own context of how to build and …

We present a new approach, which proposes to minimize the numerous problems existing in
order to have fully interoperable GIS. We discuss the existence of these heterogeneity …