: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
This paper extends relational processing and optimization to the FISQL/FIRA languages for dynamic schema queries over multidatabases. Dynamic schema queries involve the creation a...
An increasing number of business users and software applications need to process information that is accessible via multiple diverse information systems, such as database systems,...
We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator’s...