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* * September 5-7, Trento Deriving “sub-source” similarities from heterogeneous, semi-stuctured information sources D. Rosaci, G. Terracina, D. Ursino Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettronica e Trasporti Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems CoopIS 2001 Scheme Match: Finding a mapping between those elements of two schemes that semantically correspond to each other Applications: information source integration, e-commerce, scheme evaluation and migration, data and web warehousing, information source design and so on The need of semi-automatic techniques for carrying out this task is nowadays recognized Most of the techniques for Scheme Match proposed in the literature have been designed only for databases Motivations They aimed at deriving terminological and structural relationships between single concepts New approaches to Scheme Match, handling semi-structured information sources, appear to be compulsory Such approaches must be somehow different from the traditional ones since: in semi-structured information sources significant pieces of information are expressed in the form of groups of concepts rather than single ones different instances of the same concept could have different structures The emphasis shifts away from the extraction of semantic correspondencies between concepts to the derivation of semantic correspondencies between groups of concepts Motivations We propose a semi-automatic technique for extracting similarities between sub-sources belonging to different, heterogeneous and semi-structured information sources The adoption of a conceptual model, capable to uniformly handle information sources of different formats, appears to be extremely useful Translation rules should be defined from classical information source formats to the adopted conceptual model Our approach exploits the SDR-Network conceptual model which meets the requirements described above General character