Addressing the Challenges of Aggregational and Temporal Ontological Heterogeneity

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4570-05

CISL Working Paper No. 2005-11

13 Pages Posted: 18 Jan 2006

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Stuart Madnick

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Hongwei (Harry) Zhu

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Date Written: November 2005

Abstract

In this paper, we first identify semantic heterogeneities that, when not resolved, often cause serious data quality problems. We discuss the especially challenging problems of temporal and aggregational ontological heterogeneity, which concerns how complex entities and their relationships are aggregated and reinterpreted over time. Then we illustrate how the COntext INterchange (COIN) technology can be used to capture data semantics and reconcile semantic heterogeneities in a scalable manner, thereby improving data quality.

Keywords: Data Semantics, Semantic Heterogeneity, Aggregation, Temporal, Ontology, Context

Suggested Citation

Madnick, Stuart E. and Zhu, Hongwei, Addressing the Challenges of Aggregational and Temporal Ontological Heterogeneity (November 2005). MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4570-05, CISL Working Paper No. 2005-11, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=876954 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.876954

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