Ontologies and Databases, Reprinted from DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES, 7:1, 1999

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Guest Editorial; A. Bouguettaya. Ontologies are not the Panacea in Data Integration: A Flexible Coordinator to Mediate Context Construction; A.M. Ouksel, I. Ahmed. Controlled Vocabularies in OODBs: Modeling Issues and Implementation; Li-Min Liu, et al. A Discovery-Based Approach to Databases Ontology Design; S. Castano, V. de Antonellis. Regular Paper. Load Balancing for Parallel Query Execution on NUMA Multiprocessors; L. Bouganim, et al.