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An Evidential Approach to Integrating Semantically Heterogeneous Distributed Databases

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We present an evidential scheme for integrating semantically heterogeneous aggregates, stored as summary tables, of distributed databases. The ontology of discourse at which to carry out the integration of aggregates is the common ontology derived from local ontologies in the form of classification schemes. The distributed aggregation combination operator DAggCom is developed to combine aggregates from local databases and requires minimal communication with local data sources.

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  1. School of Computing and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA

    Xin Hong, Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney & Philip Morrow

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  1. The School of Electronics, Electrical, Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN N.I., Belfast, UK

    David A. Bell

  2. School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN, Belfast, UK

    Jun Hong

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Hong, X., McClean, S., Scotney, B., Morrow, P. (2006). An Evidential Approach to Integrating Semantically Heterogeneous Distributed Databases. In: Bell, D.A., Hong, J. (eds) Flexible and Efficient Information Handling. BNCOD 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788911_22

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