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On the applicability of schema integration techniques to database interoperation
We discuss the applicability of schema integration techniques developed for tightly-coupled database interoperation to interoperation of databases stemming from different modelling contexts. We illustrate that in such an environment, it is typically quite difficult to infer the real-world semantics of remote classes from their definition in remote databases. However, defining relationships between the real-world semantics of schema elements is essential in existing schema integration techniques. We propose to base database interoperation in such environments on instance-level semantic relationships, to be defined using what we call object comparison rules. Both the local and the remote classifications of the appropriately merged instances are maintained, allowing for the derivation of a global class hierarchy if desired
The state-of-the-art in web-scale semantic information processing for cloud computing
Based on integrated infrastructure of resource sharing and computing in
distributed environment, cloud computing involves the provision of dynamically
scalable and provides virtualized resources as services over the Internet.
These applications also bring a large scale heterogeneous and distributed
information which pose a great challenge in terms of the semantic ambiguity. It
is critical for application services in cloud computing environment to provide
users intelligent service and precise information. Semantic information
processing can help users deal with semantic ambiguity and information overload
efficiently through appropriate semantic models and semantic information
processing technology. The semantic information processing have been
successfully employed in many fields such as the knowledge representation,
natural language understanding, intelligent web search, etc. The purpose of
this report is to give an overview of existing technologies for semantic
information processing in cloud computing environment, to propose a research
direction for addressing distributed semantic reasoning and parallel semantic
computing by exploiting semantic information newly available in cloud computing
environment.Comment: 20 page
Automated schema matching techniques: an exploratory study
Manual schema matching is a problem for many database applications that use multiple data sources including data warehousing and e-commerce applications. Current research attempts to address this problem by developing algorithms to automate aspects of the schema-matching task. In this paper, an approach using an external dictionary facilitates automated discovery of the semantic meaning of database schema terms. An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the performance and accuracy of five schema-matching techniques with the proposed approach, called SemMA. The proposed approach and results are compared with two existing semi-automated schema-matching approaches and suggestions for future research are made
Information Integration and Computational Logic
Information Integration is a young and exciting field with enormous research
and commercial significance in the new world of the Information Society. It
stands at the crossroad of Databases and Artificial Intelligence requiring
novel techniques that bring together different methods from these fields.
Information from disparate heterogeneous sources often with no a-priori common
schema needs to be synthesized in a flexible, transparent and intelligent way
in order to respond to the demands of a query thus enabling a more informed
decision by the user or application program. The field although relatively
young has already found many practical applications particularly for
integrating information over the World Wide Web. This paper gives a brief
introduction of the field highlighting some of the main current and future
research issues and application areas. It attempts to evaluate the current and
potential role of Computational Logic in this and suggests some of the problems
where logic-based techniques could be used.Comment: 53 Page
Literature Review Of Attribute Level And Structure Level Data Linkage Techniques
Data Linkage is an important step that can provide valuable insights for
evidence-based decision making, especially for crucial events. Performing
sensible queries across heterogeneous databases containing millions of records
is a complex task that requires a complete understanding of each contributing
databases schema to define the structure of its information. The key aim is to
approximate the structure and content of the induced data into a concise
synopsis in order to extract and link meaningful data-driven facts. We identify
such problems as four major research issues in Data Linkage: associated costs
in pair-wise matching, record matching overheads, semantic flow of information
restrictions, and single order classification limitations. In this paper, we
give a literature review of research in Data Linkage. The purpose for this
review is to establish a basic understanding of Data Linkage, and to discuss
the background in the Data Linkage research domain. Particularly, we focus on
the literature related to the recent advancements in Approximate Matching
algorithms at Attribute Level and Structure Level. Their efficiency,
functionality and limitations are critically analysed and open-ended problems
have been exposed.Comment: 20 page
Using Methods of Declarative Logic Programming for Intelligent Information Agents
The search for information on the web is faced with several problems, which
arise on the one hand from the vast number of available sources, and on the
other hand from their heterogeneity. A promising approach is the use of
multi-agent systems of information agents, which cooperatively solve advanced
information-retrieval problems. This requires capabilities to address complex
tasks, such as search and assessment of sources, query planning, information
merging and fusion, dealing with incomplete information, and handling of
inconsistency. In this paper, our interest is in the role which some methods
from the field of declarative logic programming can play in the realization of
reasoning capabilities for information agents. In particular, we are interested
in how they can be used and further developed for the specific needs of this
application domain. We review some existing systems and current projects, which
address information-integration problems. We then focus on declarative
knowledge-representation methods, and review and evaluate approaches from logic
programming and nonmonotonic reasoning for information agents. We discuss
advantages and drawbacks, and point out possible extensions and open issues.Comment: 66 pages, 1 figure, to be published in "Theory and Practice of Logic
Programming
Does William Shakespeare REALLY Write Hamlet? Knowledge Representation Learning with Confidence
Knowledge graphs (KGs), which could provide essential relational information
between entities, have been widely utilized in various knowledge-driven
applications. Since the overall human knowledge is innumerable that still grows
explosively and changes frequently, knowledge construction and update
inevitably involve automatic mechanisms with less human supervision, which
usually bring in plenty of noises and conflicts to KGs. However, most
conventional knowledge representation learning methods assume that all triple
facts in existing KGs share the same significance without any noises. To
address this problem, we propose a novel confidence-aware knowledge
representation learning framework (CKRL), which detects possible noises in KGs
while learning knowledge representations with confidence simultaneously.
Specifically, we introduce the triple confidence to conventional
translation-based methods for knowledge representation learning. To make triple
confidence more flexible and universal, we only utilize the internal structural
information in KGs, and propose three kinds of triple confidences considering
both local and global structural information. In experiments, We evaluate our
models on knowledge graph noise detection, knowledge graph completion and
triple classification. Experimental results demonstrate that our
confidence-aware models achieve significant and consistent improvements on all
tasks, which confirms the capability of CKRL modeling confidence with
structural information in both KG noise detection and knowledge representation
learning.Comment: 8 page
Specifying global behaviour in database federations
We discuss the impact of locally implemented behaviour on global behaviour specification in a federation of object-oriented databases. In particular, given a specification of an integrated view of a number of component databases, we discuss the process of determining the global methods that are implicitly implemented by a given set of local methods on these component databases. To this end, we develop the notions of objectivity and subjectivity of local methods, indicating whether the execution of a local method affects the global view exactly as it affects the local database, behaviour equivalences between local methods, indicating whether local methods of different components have similar effect, and behaviour concurrences, indicating whether local methods respond to the same event. These notions can be used as a basis for tools supporting the engineering activity of specifying global behaviour in database federations
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