A schema mapping is a high-level specification that describes the relationship between two database schemas. As schema mappings constitute the essential building blocks of data ex...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Alan Nash, Luci...
The XML technologies have brought a lot of new ideas and abilities in the field of information management systems. Nowadays, XML is used almost everywhere: from small configurati...
The need for semantics preserving integration of complex data has been widely recognized in the healthcare domain. While standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7) have been develo...
Antoine Zimmermann, Ratnesh Sahay, Ronan Fox, Axel...
The problem of biometric sensor interoperability has received limited attention in the literature. Most biometric systems operate under the assumption that the data (viz., images) ...
Biomolecular simulations produce more output data than can be managed effectively by traditional computing systems. Researchers need distributed systems that allow the pooling of...
Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aa...