Information Integration with Ontologies: Experiences from an Industrial Showcase - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470010487 ISBN 13: 9780470010488

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

Disparate information, spread over various sources, in various formats, and with incon­sistent semantics is a major obstacle for enterprises to use this information at its full potential. Information Grids should allow for the effective access, extraction and linking of dispersed information. Currently Europe’s coporations spend over 10 Billion € to deal with these problems. 

This book will demonstrate the applicability of grid technologies to industry. To this end, it gives a detailed insight on how on­tology technology can be used to manage dispersed information assets more efficiently. The book is based on experiences from the COG (Corporate Ontology Grid) project, carried out jointly by three leading industrial players and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute Austria. Through comparisons of this project with alternative technologies and projects, it provides hands-on experience and best practice examples to act as a reference guide for their development.

Information Integration with Ontologies: Ontology based Information Integration in an Industrial Setting is ideal for technical experts and computer researchers in the IT-area looking to achieve integration of heterogeneous information and apply ontology technologies and techniques in practice. It will also be of great benefit to technical decision makers seeking infor­mation about ontology technologies and the scientific audience, interested in achievements towards the application of ontologies in an industrial setting.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Obtaining competitive advantage depends more than ever on optimizing information assets. Disparate information, spread over various sources in different formats and with inconsistent semantics, is a major obstacle that prevents corporations from disseminating and exchanging information with a view to maximizing efficiency and profitability.

This valuable resource provides a detailed insight into how ontology technology can be used to achieve optimum performance levels in the management of disparate information. Through practical experience this real-world approach focuses on the realization of information grids, based on ontologies, and their application in an industrial setting.

• Presents theory-based practical advice on integrating heterogeneous data sources using ontology technologies
• Includes the best practice examples and methodologies employed gleaned from the implementation of COG (Corporate Ontology Grid)
• Compares and contrasts data models and ontologies, illustrating these with real-world applications
• Includes a comprehensive section on ontology querying and generating transformations via an ontological grid

Information Integration with Ontologies will be of interest to IT technicians needing advice and examples on the successful integration of heterogeneous information and the application of ontology technology. It will also appeal to technical decision makers involved in real-world applications.

About the Author:

The book is authored by members of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) headed by Professor Dieter Fensel.

Professor Fensel is the scientific director of DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway, based on a large grant acquired from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). His current research interests include Ontologies, semantic web, web services, knowledge management, enterprise application integration, and electronic commerce.  He is a major scientific player in the area of the semantic web and has authored and co-edited 9 books, and more than 150 publications in journals and conferences.  He is associate editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS), IEEE Intelligent Systems, the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS), Elsevier's Journal on Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web and the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) subline entitled "Semantics in Data Management".

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0470010487
• ISBN 13: 9780470010488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Alexiev Vladimir, Breu Michael, De Bruijn Jos, Fensel Dieter, Lara Ruben, Lausen Holger