NSF Award IIS 0812258

III-COR-Small: Efficient Matching for Large Real-World Schemas and Ontologies

PI: Isabel Cruz (UIC)


Acknowledgment and Disclaimers

This project is sponsored by the Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Program of the National Science Foundation under Award 0812258. This web page is based upon work supported by this award. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this page are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

The manuscripts provided here are preliminary. The final version of the papers can be obtained from the named sources.

Abstract at NSF Web Site

Personnel and Students

Publications

Abstract

This project aims at bridging across heterogeneous data and will impact applications in multiple fields, including emergency management, biomedicine, digital government, and environment. In particular, this project extends the state of the art in schema and ontology matching, and therefore in data integration, by testing and evaluating methods and strategies that establish relationships among semantically related concepts in heterogeneous data sources.

The following research issues are addressed: (1) Design of methods and algorithms for schema and ontology matching that operate at different levels of granularity (e.g., concept, structure); (2) Development of a prototype of an integrated system that supports the visualization and manipulation of large schemas and ontologies in addition to the developed matching methods and algorithms; (3) Test and evaluation of the above methods and system prototype in terms of their effectiveness, including accuracy (precision, recall) and efficiency (execution time). From an educational viewpoint, this project impacts the design of courses and the research training of graduate and undergraduate students, and of a postdoc.

Personnel and Students

Isabel F. Cruz (PI)
Angela Maduko (Postdoc)
Flavio Palandri Antonelli
Cosmin Stroe
Ulas Cagdas Keles
Rigel Gjomemo
Joel Booth
Caide Huang
Greg Jarzab

Graduated Students

William Sunna
Mirko Orsini
Huiyong Xiao
Benjamin Lin
Alessandro Porfiri

Publications

Matching

Integrated Ontology Matching and Evaluation (Poster and Demo Paper)
Isabel F. Cruz, Flavio Palandri Antonelli, and Cosmin Stroe
International Semantic Web Conference, Chantilly, Virginia, October 2009 (to appear).
AgreementMaker Efficient Matching for Large Real-World Schemas and Ontologies (Demo Paper)
Isabel F. Cruz, Flavio Palandri Antonelli, and Cosmin Stroe
International Conference on Very Large Databases, Lyon, France, September 2009. pdf
Structural Alignment Methods with Applications to Geospatial Ontologies
Isabel F. Cruz and William Sunna
Transactions in GIS, special issue on Semantic Similarity Measurement and Geospatial Applications, eds. Krzystof Janowicz, Martin Raubal, Angela Schwering, Werner Kuhn, vol. 12, no. 6, pages 683-711, December 2008. pdf

Secure Mediation

A Secure Mediator for Integrating Multiple Level Access Control Policies
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, and Mirko Orsini
12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, XML Security Track, ed. Ernesto Damiani, Zagreb, Croatia, Springer, pages 354-362, 2008. pdf

Applications

Query Sentences as Semantic (Sub) Networks
Joel Booth, Barbara Di Eugenio, Isabel F. Cruz, and Ouri Wolfson
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Berkeley, CA, September 2009 (to appear). pdf
A Layered Framework Supporting Personal Information Integration and Application Design for the Semantic Desktop
Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
VLDB Journal, vol 17, no. 6, pages 1385-1406, November 2008. pdf

Data Integration and Query Processing

Ontology Driven Data Integration in Heterogeneous Networks
Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
Complex Systems in Knowledge-Based Environments, eds. Andreas Tolk and Lakhmi Jain, pages 75-97, Springer, 2009. pdf
Data Integration for Querying Geospatial Sources
Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
Geospatial Services and Applications for the Internet, eds. John Sample, Kevin Shaw, Shengru Tu, and Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Springer, pages 113-137, 2008. pdf

Ontology Reasoning

A Constraint and Attribute Based Security Framework for Dynamic Role Assignment in Collaborative Environments
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, and Mirko Orsini
CollaborateCom, Springer, pages 322-339, 2008. pdf
A Location Aware Role and Attribute Based Access Control System (Demo Paper)
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, and Mirko Orsini
16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), pages 527-528, 2008. pdf

Other

Continuous Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Queries for Uncertain Trajectories
Goce Trajcevski, Roberto Tamassia, Hui Ding, Peter Scheuermann, and Isabel F. Cruz
12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), St Petersburg, Russia, pages 874-885, March 2009.pdf
A Data Model and Query Language For Urban Transportation Systems
Joel Booth, Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, and Isabel F. Cruz
12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), St Petersburg, Russia, pages 994-1005, March 2009. pdf
Alternating Multiple Tributaries+Deltas
Goce Trajcevski, Oliviu Ghica, Peter Scheuermann, and Roberto Tamassia and Isabel F. Cruz
5th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2008), in conjunction with VLDB, Auckland, New Zealand, pages 28-34, 2008. pdf