The existing standard for object-oriented databases (ODMG) provides no facility for storing behaviour. This lack of stored behaviour introduces problems for generic applications as...
Abstract. This paper focuses on the interoperability of autonomous legacy databases with the idea of meeting the future requirements of an organization. It describes a general arch...
We describe the architecture of a federated system designed to allow the integration of structured, relational, data together with unstructured multimedia data. Two characteristic...
Alan Cole, Jim Christensen, Howard Sachar, Oleg Du...
A main problem of data integration is the treatment of conflicts caused by different modeling of real-world entities, different data models or simply by different representations ...