[2002] thesis integrating information on the semantic web using partially ordered multi hypersets

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1、IntegratingInformationontheSemanticWebUsingPartiallyOrderedMultiHypersetsbyPiotrKaminskiB.Math.,UniversityofWaterloo,1997AThesisSubmittedinPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementfortheDegreeofMASTEROFSCIENCEintheDepartmentofComputerScienceWeacceptthisthesisas

2、conformingtotherequiredstandardDr.R.N.Horspool,Supervisor(DepartmentofComputerScience)Dr.H.A.Müller,Supervisor(DepartmentofComputerScience)Dr.M.Storey,DepartmentMember(DepartmentofComputerScience)Dr.I.Traoré,OutsideMember(Dept.ofElectrical&ComputerEngine

3、ering)©PiotrKaminski,2002UniversityofVictoriaAllrightsreserved.Thisthesismaynotbereproducedinwholeorinpart,byphotocopyorothermeans,withoutthepermissionoftheauthor.iiSupervisors:Dr.R.N.HorspoolandDr.H.A.MüllerABSTRACTThesemanticwebissupposedtobeaglobal,ma

4、chine-readableinformationre-pository,butthereisnoagreementonasinglecommoninformationmetamodel.Topreventthefragmentationofthisnascentsemanticweb,thisthesisintroducestheexpressiveandflexibleBraquemetamodel.Basedonnon-well-foundedpar-tiallyorderedmultisets(

5、hyperpomsets),augmentwithapowerfulreflectionmechanism,themetamodelsupportstheautomated,lossless,semanticallytrans-parentintegrationofrelationship-basedmetamodels.CompletemappingstoBraquefromtheExtensibleMarkupLanguage(XML),theResourceDescriptionFramework

6、(RDF),andtheTopicMapsstandardareprovided.Themappingsplaceinformationatthesamesemanticlevel,allowinguniformnavigationandquerieswithoutregardfortheoriginalmodelboundaries.Examiners:Dr.R.N.Horspool,Supervisor(DepartmentofComputerScience)Dr.H.A.Müller,Superv

7、isor(DepartmentofComputerScience)Dr.M.Storey,DepartmentMember(DepartmentofComputerScience)Dr.I.Traoré,OutsideMember(Dept.ofElectrical&ComputerEngineering)iiiTableofContentsAbstract..........................................................................

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