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.

Benefits of ontologies in real time data access / Zhan Cui, Ernesto Damiani, Marcello Leida - In: 2007 Inaugural IEEE international conference on digital ecosystems and technologies : 21-23 february 2007, Cairns, Australia. / [a cura di] [s.n.]. - [s.l] : Institute of electrical and electronics engineers, 2007. - ISBN 9781424404704. - pp. 392-397 (( convegno IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference (DEST) tenutosi a Cairns nel 2007 [10.1109/DEST.2007.372004].

Benefits of ontologies in real time data access

E. Damiani;M. Leida
2007

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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.
Data integration; Ontology enrichment; Ontology mapping; Real time business intelligence
Settore INF/01 - Informatica
2007
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