@techreport{kweb-2.2.5, author = {Pascal Hitzler and J\'er\^ome Euzenat and Markus Kr\"otzsch and Luciano Serafini and Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Holger Wache and Antoine Zimmermann}, year = {2005}, title = {Integrated view and comparison of alignment semantics}, type = {deliverable}, institution = {{K}nowledge {W}eb {NoE}}, number = {2.2.5}, language = {en}, url = {ftp://ftp.inrialpes.fr/pub/exmo/reports/kweb-225.pdf}, keywords = {semantic alignment, data integration, mappings, merging, description logics, category theory}, abstract = {We take a general perspective on alignment in order to develop common theoretical foundations for the subject. The deliverable comprises a comparative study of different mapping languages by means of distributed first-order logic, and a study on category-theoretical modelling of alignment and merging by means of pushout-combinations.} }