A data warehouse materializes views derived from data that may not reside at the warehouse. Maintaining these views e ciently in response to base updates is di cult, since it may ...
For the foreseeable future, most data will continue to be stored in relational databases. To work with these data in ontology-based applications, tools and techniques that bridge t...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...
- In order to accomplish independence on the logical data organization, a relational DBMS must be capable of interpreting query language sentences which reference attributes belong...
Access to large numbers of data sources introduces new problems for users of heterogeneous distributed databases. End users and application programmers must deal with unavailable ...
Anthony Tomasic, Louiqa Raschid, Patrick Valduriez
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...