Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Bioinformatics data is growing at a phenomenal rate. Besides the exponential growth of individual databases, the number of data depositories is increasing too. Because of the comp...
Wrapping databases allows them to be reused in formerly unplanned contexts, such as web-based applications or federated systems. Indeed, a wrapper can provide external clients of ...
Philippe Thiran, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Geert-Jan Hoube...
The problem of the semantics-preserving data transformations during their exchange by e-business applications is addressed. A method for automatic generation of schema mappings is...
Mapping specification has been recognised as a critical bottleneck to the large scale deployment of data integration systems. A mapping is a description using which data structured...
Lu Mao, Khalid Belhajjame, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro...