Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing di erent levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with di erent and limitedcapa...
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura M. Ha...
In this paper we propose a mediator architecture for the querying and integration of Web-accessible XML data sources. Our contributions are (i) the definition of a simple but expr...
Despite various interoperability recommendations, heterogeneity of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is still an issue. This led to an increasing need for a data integration sy...
The problem of finding contained rewritings of queries using views is of great importance in mediated data integration systems. In this paper, we first present a general approach f...
We present the application of the Planning by Rewriting PbR framework to query planning in distributed and heterogeneous environments. PbR is a new paradigm for e cient high-quali...