Effective integration of heterogeneous data sources has been studied as the most pressing challenge in various fields; such as, high energy physics, astronomy, and life sciences. ...
XML has emerged as the leading language for representing and exchanging data not only on the Web, but also in general in the enterprise. XQuery is emerging as the standard query l...
Georges Gardarin, Antoine Mensch, Tuyet-Tram Dang-...
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...
Abstract--With the growing computer networks, accessible data is becoming increasing distributed. Understanding and integrating remote and unfamiliar data sources are important dat...
Abstract. We examine the maintenance of data consistency in the presence of application-database interactions. Currently, a programmer must insert explicit checks to ensure that da...