A hitherto unquestioned assumption made by all methods for integrity checking has been that the database satisfies its constraints before each update. This consistency assumption ...
The NCRI Informatics Initiative is overseeing the implementation of an informatics framework for the UK cancer research community. The framework advocates an integrated multidisci...
R. H. J. Begent, J. Michael Brady, Anthony Finkels...
Traditional governmental structures have organized the capture, use, and management of information along agency lines. These “information silos” are not very useful in a dynam...
The high cost of data consolidation is the key market inhibitor to the adoption of traditional information integration and data warehousing solutions. In this paper, we outline a n...
Paul Brown, Peter J. Haas, Jussi Myllymaki, Hamid ...
Abstract. Data integration is the process by which data from heterogeneous data sources are conceptually integrated into a single cohesive data set. In recent years agents have bee...