Access to large numbers of data sources introduces new problems for users of heterogeneous distributed databases. End users and application programmers must deal with unavailable ...
Anthony Tomasic, Louiqa Raschid, Patrick Valduriez
Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...
Abstract. In recent times, the proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much larger audience to access and share data currently available in various Ge...
Alberto Belussi, Omar Boucelma, Barbara Catania, Y...
Query processing in data integration occurs over network-bound, autonomous data sources. This requires extensions to traditional optimization and execution techniques for three re...
Zachary G. Ives, Daniela Florescu, Marc Friedman, ...
Many aspects of the data integration problem have been considered in the literature: how to match schemas across different data sources, how to decide when different records refer...