Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
Vocabularies to describe research findings are needed to effectively use scientific databases. As understanding of data evolves, scientists need tools for extending the vocabulari...
Josiah Johnston, Arpun Nagaraja, Harry Hochheiser,...
Data integration from multiple autonomous data sources has emerged as an important practical problem. The key requirement for such data integration is that owners of such data nee...
Amr El Abbadi, Aziz Gulbeden, Divyakant Agrawal, F...
Part of the process of data integration is determining which sets of identifiers refer to the same real-world entities. In integrating databases found on the Web or obtained by us...
In this paper we describe a framework for robust system maintenance that addresses specific challenges of data-centric applications. We show that for data-centric applications, cl...
Behzad Bordbar, Dirk Draheim, Matthias Horn, Ina S...