This is the second of a two-part paper to review ontology research and development, in
particular, ontology map** and evolving. Ontology is defined as a formal explicit …

Metadata have always played a key role in favoring the cooperation of heterogeneous data
sources. This role has become much more crucial with the advent of data lakes, in which …

E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few
examples that demonstrate how web sites are evolving from essentially read-only …

This paper illustrates a semi-automated tool capable of constructing a Cooperative
Information System or a Data Warehouse. In particular it implements an approach composed …

In the last years, data lakes are emerging as an effective and an efficient support for
information and knowledge extraction from a huge amount of highly heterogeneous and …

Data integration systems provide access to a set of heterogeneous, autonomous data
sources through a so-called global, or mediated view. There is a general consensus that the …

In this paper we present DIKE, a system supporting the semi‐automatic construction of
cooperative information systems from heterogeneous databases. The input of DIKE consists …

Determining the correspondences among heterogeneous data sources, which is critical to
integration of the data sources, is a complex and resource-consuming task that demands …

The availability of automatic tools for inferring semantics of database schemes is useful to
solve several database design problems such as that of obtaining cooperative information …

One of the main challenges for e-commerce infrastructure designers is to retrieve data from
different sources and create a unified view that overcomes contradictions and redundancies …