Re: Semantic Heterogeneity and Ontology

The ontology management work that I am familiar with is going on outside the database field, in the semantic web domain. However, researchers in that field admit that the problem is a database problem. To get a link into this work do a google search on OWL, DAML and DAML+OIL, as well as semantic web, ontology, etc. Much of this work is based on Cyc and its ontology management. So, look for Cyc too.

"researcher" <a_thesis_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:31acb67d.0404040556.3d47aed1_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there are any well known patterns or industry
> efforts to solve semantic heterogeneity.
>
> Example from Prof. Amit Sheth Paper:
> Consider an attribute MEAL_COST
> of relation RESTAURANT in database DB1 that describes the average cost
> of a meal per person in the restaurant without service charge or tax.
> Consider attribute by the same name (MEAL_COST) of relation BOARDING
> in database DB2 that describes the average cost of a meal per person
> including service charge and tax. Let both the attributes have the
> same syntactic properties. Attempting to compare attributes
> DB1.RESTAURANT.MEAL_COST and DB2.BOARDING.MEAL_COST is misleading
> because they are semantically heterogeneous.
>
> I know there are several individual research efforts. I would also
> appreciate if any senior researchers could point me to some serious
> ontology management development efforts.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> -researcher
Received on Mon Apr 05 2004 - 19:28:48 CEST