Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
Data integration is the process that gives users access to multiple data sources though queries against a global schema. Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as the most imp...
Ladjel Bellatreche, Guy Pierra, Dung Nguyen Xuan, ...
The large amount of information that is spread over the Internet is an important resource for all people but also introduces some issues that must be faced. The dynamism and the un...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Giacomo Cabri, Francesco Guerra...
Abstract. In the Web environment, rich, diverse sources of heterogeneous and distributed data are ubiquitous. In fact, even the information characterizing a single entity - like, f...
Muhammad Intizar Ali, Reinhard Pichler, Hong Linh ...
Providing an integrated access to multiple heterogeneous sources is a challenging issue in global information systems for cooperation and interoperability. In the past, companies h...