Benefits of ontologies in real time data access

Zhan Ciu, Ernesto Damiani, Marcello Leida

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Abstract

Next generation Business Intelligence systems requires flexible and on-time access to enterprise's data. This paper highlights the importance of a data integration layer in a Business Intelligence system and the benefits that the use of an ontology as data description formalism and query interface, can bring to the system. In particular we focus on the aspects of data mapping and ontology enrichment, giving a general overview of the problem. We introduce also BT Data Foundry platform that has been implemented by Intelligent Systems Research Centre of BT Exact (British Telecom) as a method to provide the Business Intelligence system with a common data access layer. We provide also an outline of the solution to data mapping and ontology enrichment problems, based on semantic bridges and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). We use a normalization layer based on heuristic to reduce the terms space.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, DEST 2007
Pages392-397
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, DEST 2007 - Cairns, Australia
Duration: 21 Feb 200723 Feb 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, DEST 2007

Conference

Conference2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, DEST 2007
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityCairns
Period21/02/0723/02/07

Keywords

  • Data integration
  • Ontology enrichment
  • Ontology mapping
  • Real time business intelligence

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