Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the First and Second VLDB Workshop Ontologies-based techniques for DataBases and Information Systems, held in Trondheim, Norway, September 2005 and Seoul, Korea, September 2006. The topics include ontology-based interoperability and schema matching, management of ontological bases and links between ontologies and knowledge.

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A Multi-level Matching Algorithm for Combining Similarity Measures in Ontology Integration.- Class Structures and Lexical Similarities of Class Names for Ontology Matching.- Scalable Interoperability Through the Use of COIN Lightweight Ontology.- Domain Ontologies Evolutions to Solve Semantic Conflicts.- Requirements Ontology and Multi-representation Strategy for Database Schema Evolution.- Improving the Development of Data Warehouses by Enriching Dimension Hierarchies with WordNet.- Management of Large Spatial Ontology Bases.- Knowledge Extraction Using a Conceptual Information System (ExCIS).- The Semantic Desktop: A Semantic Personal Information Management System Based on RDF and Topic Maps.