In this paper, an agent is defined as a triple (S, RS, LS), where S is a multi-hierarchical decision system, RS is a set of rules extracted from S defining values of its decision a...
Schema matching is a fundamental issue to many database applications, such as query mediation and data warehousing. It becomes a challenge when different vocabularies are used to r...
— The web today is increasingly characterized by social and real-time signals, which we believe represent two frontiers in information retrieval. In this paper, we present Earlyb...
Michael Busch, Krishna Gade, Brian Larson, Patrick...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. Two operators on schema mappings, namely the composition operator and th...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
A fundamental problem in information integration is that of designing the relationships, called schema mappings, between two schemas. The specification of a semantically correct sc...