Distributed Description Logics: Assimilating Information from Peer Sources

Due to the availability on the Internet of a wide variety of sources of information on related topics, the problem of providing seamless, integrated access to such sources has become (again) a major research challenge. Although this problem has been studied for several decades, there is a need for a more refined approach in those cases where the original sources maintain their own independent view of the world. In particular, we investigate those situations where there may not be a simple one-to-one mapping between the individuals in the domains of the various Information Sources.

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