<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16527" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face=Verdana
size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Apologies for
cross-postings<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>
ONTOLOGY MATCHING<BR>
book
announcement<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><BR>We are pleased to
announce the availability of the first book<BR>about the Ontology Matching
area:<BR><BR>ONTOLOGY MATCHING<BR><BR>Authors:<BR>Jerome Euzenat, INRIA
Rhone-Alpes, France,<BR>Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy.<BR><BR>URL:
</FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://book.ontologymatching.org</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><BR>Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (DE), 2007<BR>343
p., 67 illus., Hardcover<BR>ISBN:
978-3-540-49611-3<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>ABSTRACT<BR><BR>Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed
as the<BR>silver bullet for many applications, such as database
integration,<BR>peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services,
or<BR>social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as<BR>the
semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt<BR>different
ontologies. Thus, merely using ontologies, like using XML,<BR>does not reduce
heterogeneity: it just raises heterogeneity<BR>problems to a higher level.
Euzenat and Shvaiko's book is devoted<BR>to ontology matching as a solution to
the semantic heterogeneity<BR>problem faced by computer systems. Ontology
matching aims at<BR>finding correspondences between semantically related
entities of<BR>different ontologies. These correspondences may stand
for<BR>equivalence as well as other relations, such as
consequence,<BR>subsumption, or disjointness, between ontology entities.<BR>Many
different matching solutions have been proposed so far<BR>from various
viewpoints, e.g., databases, information systems,<BR>artificial intelligence.
With Ontology Matching, researchers and<BR>practitioners will find a reference
book which presents currently<BR>available work in a uniform framework. In
particular, the work and<BR>the techniques presented in this book can equally be
applied to<BR>database schema matching, catalog integration, XML
schema<BR>matching and other related problems. The objectives of the
book<BR>include presenting (i) the state of the art and (ii) the latest
research<BR>results in ontology matching by providing a detailed account
of<BR>matching techniques and matching systems in a systematic way<BR>from
theoretical, practical and application
perspectives.<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>KEYWORDS<BR><BR>Catalogue integration<BR>Data
integration<BR>Ontologies<BR>Ontology alignment<BR>Schema matching<BR>Semantic
web<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>CONTENTS<BR><BR>
Introduction<BR>Part I - The Matching Problem<BR> Chapter 1 -
Applications<BR> Chapter 2 - The matching problem<BR>Part II - Ontology
Matching Techniques<BR> Chapter 3 - Classifications of ontology matching
techniques<BR> Chapter 4 - Basic techniques<BR> Chapter 5 - Matching
strategies<BR>Part III - Systems and Evaluation<BR> Chapter 6 - Overview
of matching systems<BR> Chapter 7 - Evaluation of matching systems<BR>Part
IV - Representing, Explaining, and Processing Alignments<BR> Chapter 8 -
Frameworks and formats: representing alignments<BR> Chapter 9 - Explaining
alignments<BR> Chapter 10 - Processing alignments<BR>Part V -
Conclusions<BR> Appendices<BR> Bibliography<BR>
Index<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT
face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Best Regards,
<BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>Postdoc, University of Trento<BR>Dept. of Information and
Communication Technology<BR>Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY<BR>Web: <A
href="">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</A><BR><A
href="">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana
size=2></FONT> </DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>