Describing relational data sources (i.e. databases) by means of ontologies constitutes the foundation of most of the semantic based approaches to data access and integration. In sp...
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
We study the problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between one or more source schemas and this target schema, and given that the data is at...
We propose a framework for integrating data from multiple relational sources into an XML document that both conforms to a given DTD and satisfies predefined XML constraints. The f...
Michael Benedikt, Chee Yong Chan, Wenfei Fan, Juli...
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...