Searching for semantics. IFIP TC2 WG2.6 IFIP Seventh Conference on Database Semantics (DS-7) 7-10 October 1997, Leysin, Switzerland
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Stefano Spaccapietra, Fred Maryanski.
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Boston, MA
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Springer US
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1998
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(xvi, 501 pages)
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IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing.
CONTENTS NOTE
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One Invited Talks --;1 OLAP mining: an integration of OLAP with data mining --;2 Semantic approaches to structuring and querying web sites --;3 Text mining: natural language techniques for text mining applications --;Two Data Mining --;4 Improvements in supervised BRAINNE: a method for symbolic data mining using neural networks --;5 CE: the classifier-estimator framework for data mining --;6 An associative search method based on symbolic filtering and semantic ordering for database systems --;Three Reverse Engineering --;7 Contribution to the reverse engineering of OO applications: methodology and case study --;8 Searching for semantics in COBOL legacy applications --;9 The reengineering of relational databases based on key and data correlations --;Four Query Languages --;10 A formalization of ODMG queries --;11 A metaphorical and visual language for querying an existing relational database --;Five Web Environment --;12 OFAHIR: 'On-the-Fly' automatic authoring of hypertexts for information retrieval --;13 TopiCA: a semantic framework for landscaping the information space in federated digital libraries --;14 Incorporating generalized quantifiers into description logic for representing data source contents --;Six Constraints --;15 Managing constraint violations in administrative information systems --;16 Automatic generation of update rules to enforce consistency constraints in design databases --;Seven Database integration --;17 Discovering and reconciling semantic conflicts: a data mining perspective --;18 Experience with a combined approach to attribute-matching across heterogeneous databases --;Eight Spatio-Temporal Databases --;19 Design patterns for spatio-temporal processes --;20 Modeling and implementation of temporal aspects of objects in commercial information systems --;Index of contributors --;Keyword index.
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Today's database engineers are committed to the reuse of data, for performance and economic reasons. Moreover, they often have to complement enterprise data with data from external sources, where the corresponding semantics is rarely fully available. As a consequence, both database researchers and practitioners are facing salient issues in the discovery and understanding of the semantics hidden in various forms of external sources: data sets, data stores formats, database schemes, application programs, documentation etc. This book focuses on such issues from the perspective of database semantics, discussing theories, principles and models for recovering, representing and organizing semantic information on application data.