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...
The term registry is widely used to refer to any database storing clinical information collected as a byproduct of patient care. Despite the use of this single characterizing term...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
Multi-dimensional spatial data are obtained when a number of data acquisition devices are deployed at different locations to measure a certain set of attributes of the study subje...
We propose a semi-automated method for redeploying bioinformatic databases indexed in a Web portal as a decentralized, semantically integrated and service-oriented Data Grid. We g...