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The TheaterLoc Virtual Application

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The TheaterLoc Virtual Application
Although much has been written about various information integration technologies, little has been said regarding how to combine these technologies together to build an entire "virtual" application. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of TheaterLoc, an information integration application that allows users to retrieve information about theaters and restaurants for a variety of cities in the United States, including an interactive map depicting their relative locations and video trailers of the movies playing at the selected theaters. The data retrieved by TheaterLoc comes from five distinct heterogeneous and distributed sources. The enabling technology used to achieve the integration includes the Ariadne information mediator and wrappers for each of the web-based data sources. We focus in detail on the mediator technologies, such as data modeling, source axiom compilation, and query planning. We also describe how the wrappers present an interface for quer...
Greg Barish, Craig A. Knoblock, Yi-Shin Chen, Stev
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Type Conference
Year 2000
Where AAAI
Authors Greg Barish, Craig A. Knoblock, Yi-Shin Chen, Steven Minton, Andrew Philpot, Cyrus Shahabi
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