In a Web database that dynamically provides information in response to user queries, two
distinct schemas, interface schema (the schema users can query) and result schema (the …

Integration of geographic information has increased in importance because of new
possibilities arising from the interconnected world and the increasing availability of …

Integrating different information sources is a growing research area within different
application domains. This is particularly true for the geographic information domain which is …

Develo** intelligent systems to integrate numerous, autonomous and heterogeneous data
sources in order to give end users an uniform query interface is a great challenging issue …

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

Many applications benefit from the use of a suitable ontology but it can be difficult to
determine which ontology is best suited to a particular application. Although ontology …

Big Data Warehouses differ substantially from traditional data warehouses in that their
schema should be based on novel logical models that allow more flexibility than that the …

The interoperability problem arises in heterogeneous systems where different data sources
coexist and there is a need for meaningful information sharing. One of the most representive …

There is a growing demand for digital databases of topographic and thematic information for
a multitude of applications in environmental management, and also in data integration and …

Information sharing among distributed obsolescence management systems is a challenge
because of the heterogeneity of data (data with different forms and representations). Indeed …