XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety of sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the for...
Sudipto Guha, H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, Divesh ...
Accessing and integrating data from heterogeneous sources has become a significant challenge. So-called adapters provide the functionality for translating SQL queries into querie...
Background: The automation of many common molecular biology techniques has resulted in the accumulation of vast quantities of experimental data. One of the major challenges now fa...
Jianghui Xiong, Simon Rayner, Kunyi Luo, Yinghui L...
Schema matching is the task of finding semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas. It is needed in many database applications, such as integration of web data source...
In this paper we present a number of techniques that can be at the basis of a practical integration tool for multidimensional databases. We start by addressing the basic issue of ...