TY - BOOK ID - 100238486 TI - Semantic technologies for distributed information systems PY - 2007 SN - 1000005707 3866441002 PB - KIT Scientific Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Semantic Web KW - Semantic Technologies KW - Ontologies KW - Information Systems KW - Information Integration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100238486 AB - In this book we show how semantic technologies and in particular the use of ontologies can be employed to address a number of typical challenges in distributed information systems: First, we illustrate how ontologies enable the integration of information across heterogeneous nodes. Second, we show how ontology evolution allows dealing with the dynamics in the information in a consistent manner. Third, we present a model for ontologybased coordination using semantic overlay networks. ER -