An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

Schema and ontology matching is a critical problem in many application domains, such as
semantic web, schema/ontology integration, data warehouses, e-commerce, etc. Many …

Information extraction (IE) aims to retrieve certain types of information from natural language
text by processing them automatically. For example, an IE system might retrieve information …

Abstract The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for
semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the …

Objective For realizing pervasive and ubiquitous health and social care services in a safe
and high quality as well as efficient and effective way, health and social care systems have …

Semantic Web is actually an extension of the current one in that it represents information
more meaningfully for humans and computers alike. It enables the description of contents …

Ontology mapping seeks to find semantic correspondences between similar elements of
different ontologies. It is a key challenge to achieve semantic interoperability in building the …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide a systematic literature review on taxonomy
alignment methods in information science to explore the common research pipeline and …

E-business integration is a vision we have developed over a long period of time. As we have
worked in business practice for many years prior to and in parallel with our academic …

The last two decades have shown a major shift from stand-alone software systems to
networked ones. As with all information system domains, Geographic Information Systems …