Knowledge transformation for the semantic web (IOS Press, 2003)
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Includes bibliographical references and author index
Schema Conversion Methods between XML and Relational Models / Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani and Wesley W. Chu -- Transforming Data Models with UML / Martin Gogolla and Arne Lindow -- On Modeling Conformance for Flexible Transformation over Data Models / Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre -- The 'Family of Languages' Approach to Semantic Interoperability / Jerome Euzenat and Heiner Stuckenschmidt -- Tracing Data Lineage Using Schema Transformation Pathways / Hao Fan and Alexandra Poulovassilis -- Ontology Extraction for Distributed Environments / Derek Sleeman, Stephen Potter, Dave Robertson and Marco Schorlemmer -- UML for the Semantic Web: Transformation-Based Approaches / Kateryna Falkovych, Marta Sabou and Heiner Stuckenschmidt -- Knowledge Representation and Transformation in Ontology-based Data Integration / Silvana Castano and Alfio Ferrara -- A Logic Programming Approach to RDF Document and Query Transformation / Joachim Peer -- RDFT: A Mapping Meta-Ontology for Web Service Integration / Borys Omelayenko -- Transforming UML Domain Descriptions into Configuration Knowledge Bases / Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, Markus Stumptner and Markus Zanker
This guide covers main issues in transforming the vast majority of models to be used in the context of the semantic web: XML schemas, relational models, UML diagrams, RDF schemas and ontologies. Different practical approaches are presented as well as discussions on some theoretical issues