MIKS : An Agent Framework Supporting Information Access and Integration

Providing an integrated access to multiple heterogeneous sources is a challenging issue in global information systems for cooperation and interoperability. In the past, companies have equipped themselves with data storing systems building up informative systems containing data that are related one another, but which are often redundant, not homogeneous and not always semantically consistent. Moreover, to meet the requirements of global, Internet-based information systems, it is important that the tools developed for supporting these activities are semi-automatic and scalable as much as possible. To face the issues related to scalability in the large-scale, in this paper we propose the exploitation of mobile agents in the information integration area, and, in particular, their integration in the MOMIS infrastructure. MOMIS (Mediator EnvirOnment for Multiple Information Sources) is a system that has been conceived as a pool of tools to provide an integrated access to heterogeneous inform...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: AGENTLINK
• Authors: Domenico Beneventano, Sonia Bergamaschi, Gionata Gelati, Francesco Guerra, Maurizio Vincini
• Keywords: AGENTLINK 2003, Information Management, Information Systems, Integrated Access, Multiple Heterogeneous Sources