For execution of complex biological queries, data integration systems often use several intermediate data sources because the domain coverage of individual sources is limited. Qual...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Infomaster is an information integration system that provides integrated access tomultiple distributed heterogeneous information sources on the Internet, thus giving the illusion ...
Michael R. Genesereth, Arthur M. Keller, Oliver M....
Environmental research and knowledge discovery both require extensive use of data stored in various sources and created in different ways for diverse purposes. We describe a new m...
Zhiyuan Chen, Aryya Gangopadhyay, George Karabatis...
In my thesis I will address the problem of interoperation between information spaces on the web. We explain how this problem is different to traditional database integration scenar...