Authors: Janis A. Bubenko Jr., Paul Johannesson, William W. Song
Tags: 1992, conceptual modeling
To find similarities between objects of different schemata at the semantic level is a crucial problem in schema integration. To identify such similarities it is necessary to form a set of semantic characteristics the objects may have. In this paper, we present a set of such characteristics and a set of semantic similarity relations. The relations are classified into four groups, weak semantic relation, compatible semantic relation, equivalence semantic relation, and mergeable semantic relation. We also propose a schema integration tool, which makes use of the semantic relations to integrate objects of different schemata.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-56023-8_8
